Robert Staughton Lynd quotes and sayings
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Staughton Lynd quotes
- Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
- 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.
- One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
- 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.
- It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
- Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
- 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.
- 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.