Robert Staughton Lynd famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Half #Quiet #Sometimes
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Men #Facts #Knowledge Is Power
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 Staughton Lynd

#Birthday #Second Chance #World
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Years #History #Curiosity
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Telephones #Nuisance #Convenience
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Mean #Vices #Ethics
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Men #Genius
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Drama #Cutting #Epic
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Ignorance #Men #Joy
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Mean #Corny #Really Mean
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Happiness #Happy #Believe
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Friendship #Long #Advice
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 Staughton Lynd

#Christmas #People #Want
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 the same old advice but for different reasons.
-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Men #Advice #Earth

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