Quotes from Robert Staughton Lynd

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

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.

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

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.