Robert Lynd Quotes (17 Quotes)

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

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 you simply because it is Christmas.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Winter air is one of the things that can be still without being stagnant. As a matter of fact, the stiller it is the more it seems to tingle with life.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Happy is the father whose child finds his attempts to amuse it amusing.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.