If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

Quote by J Russell Lynes

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Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're...

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're...

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions...

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions...

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely...

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely...

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building...

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building...

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be...

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be...

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul...

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul...

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry,...

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry,...

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to...

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to...

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in...

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in...

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is...

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is...

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must...

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must...