Robert Staughton Lynd Quotes & Sayings

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. — Robert Staughton Lynd

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

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

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive. — Robert Staughton Lynd

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. — Robert Staughton Lynd

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. — Robert Staughton Lynd

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

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

Almost any game with any ball is a good game. — Robert Staughton Lynd

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

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

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

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

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. — Robert Staughton Lynd

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

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