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
  • Born: September 26, 1892
  • Died: November 1, 1970
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