Robert Staughton Lynd Quotes
- Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
- Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
- The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
- [History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
- When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given…
- Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second…
- Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
- There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle…
- Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
- Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
- I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
- Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
- One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
- Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
- Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
- There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.