Quotes by Robert Lynd

• It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
• Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
• Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
• Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
• I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
• There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.
• Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
• 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.
• One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
• 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.
• Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
• Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
• There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
• The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
• Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.
• It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
• There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
• It is in games that many men discover their paradise.