Robert Lynd Quotes
"Almost any game with any ball is a good game."
- Robert Lynd
"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: History, Poetry, Drama, Fiction, Literature, Quarrels, Will)
"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: Genius, Being, Man)
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: Difficulties, Quiet)
"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: Idea, Evil, Nothing)
"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: People, Trying)
"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."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: Birthday, Time, Sun, World)
"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: Saying, Worth)
"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: Knowledge, Ignorance, Man)
"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."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: People, Christmas, Want)
"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: Power, Knowledge, Facts, Man)
"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: Friendship, Advice, Will)