Robert Staughton Lynd Quotes

Robert Staughton Lynd Quotes: A Curated Collection of the Best Inspirational, Motivational, and Thought-Provoking Sayings Written by Robert Staughton Lynd

Robert Staughton Lynd

Total Quotes 15

Friendship Is Not Going To Stand The Pressure Of Greatly Great Guidance For Quite Extensive.

Pressure

Guidance

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.

Christmas

People

Want

Friendship Will Not Stand The Strain Of Very Much Good Advice For Very Long.

Funny

Friendship

Humor

Most Of Us Believe In Trying To Make Other People Happy Only If They Can Be Happy In Ways Which We Approve.

Happiness

Happy

Believe

Most Remarks That Are Worth Making Are Commonplace Remarks. The Things That Makes Them Worth Saying Is That We Really Mean Them.

Mean

Corny

Remarks

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.

Birthday

Second Chance

World

Cut Quarrels Out Of Literature, And You Will Have Very Little History Or Drama Or Fiction Or Epic Poetry Left.

Drama

Cutting

Epic

Any Of Us Can Achieve Virtue, If By Virtue We Merely Mean The Avoidance Of The Vices That Do Not Attract Us.

Integrity

Mean

Vices

[history Is] The Story Of The Magnificent Rear-guard Action Fought During Several Thousand Years By Dogma Against Curiosity.

Years

History

Curiosity

Every Man Of Genius Is Considerably Helped By Being Dead.

Men

Genius

Every Man

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.

Men

Advice

Earth

One Of The Greatest Joys Known To Man Is To Take A Flight Into Ignorance In Search Of Knowledge.

Ignorance

Men

Joy

About Robert Staughton Lynd

Born: September 26, 1892

Died: November 1, 1970