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02-21-2014, 04:51 PM
Quotes By Robert Lynd
*The most popular of the vices at the present moment seems to me to be intolerance.
*I believe that without variety of opinion life would be intolerable–especially without variety of opinion about trifles.
*Let a thoroughly bad man become religious without changing his nature, and there is no knowing what he will do.
*The wise man learns to beware of becoming the victim of the facts that are staring at him in the face.
“There are finer things in life than playing games, but, if there were no games to play, would more people do finer things? I doubt it. They would probably only do something worse.”
“The ordinary man takes very little interest in public affairs until they interfere with his private affairs.”
“There is a taint about money earned by honest work. By the time one has earned enough of it one has got into such a habit of work that one does not know how to idle.”
“C-3 kindness is too often A-1 cruelty. If the birds could speak, who doubts that they would begin their morning chant with a prayer to us to abandon out well-meant efforts to protect them?”
"Every day, life, as we see it reflected in the newspapers, becomes more and more like a novel written by Edgar Wallace."
"Virtue may seem as sleepy as a cat, but she is dangerous when she sleeps."
"The discovery of new notes of sympathy is the secret of all good conversation."
"Morals, like laws, were invented for our neighbors, and it is out secret conviction that we ourselves could get along without them."
"The chief objection to growing old is not that one grows old oneself, but that the world grows older, and it is not so much that the world grows older as that the world we once knew is in ruins."
"Too many Nelsons would spoil a navy, and one blind eye is enough for a fleet."
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
“There has never been a satisfactory definition of what constitutes a gentleman. I have been called a gentleman myself.”
“There must be a mild pleasure in irritating other people by going about the world with a sweet and sickly and intolerable smile. But I doubt whether the smilers are happier than the scowlers. There is a fierce delight to get from scowling.”
“Loudly as many of us protest against noise, we know in our hearts that the really terrifying thing is silence.”
“There are only two sure means of forgetfulness known to a man — work and drink — and, of the two, work is the more economical.”
“Liberty is not a way of working out men’s destinies for them, but a way of enabling them to work out their own destinies.”
“International sport is war without shooting.”
“It is in games that many men discover their paradise.”
“It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one’s own suffering.”
“The lowbrow often believes that a bad book is good, while the highbrow often believes that a good book is bad.”
“The rich never feel so good as when they are speaking of their possessions as responsibilities.”
“It is only in literature that coincidences seem unnatural.”
“Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.”
“Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The thing that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.”
“If you look up a dictionary of quotations you will find few reasons for a sensible man to desire to become wealthy.”
“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strange you simply because it is Christmas.”
“There is more love-poetry in a page of Browning than in all the verse Whitman ever wrote.”
“If nobody bought books except those who read them, the publishers of some of those cheap editions of the popular classics would also be leaner and sadder men.”
“However this may be, I never could read a library book without feeling as if I were eating off somebody else’s plate.”
"The English are patient people. If they were not they would not have so many bad hotels."
"The sense of one's ignorance is a much more useful thing than the sense of one's knowledge."
"THE truth is, our clothes make us to a great extent what we are."
*The most popular of the vices at the present moment seems to me to be intolerance.
*I believe that without variety of opinion life would be intolerable–especially without variety of opinion about trifles.
*Let a thoroughly bad man become religious without changing his nature, and there is no knowing what he will do.
*The wise man learns to beware of becoming the victim of the facts that are staring at him in the face.
“There are finer things in life than playing games, but, if there were no games to play, would more people do finer things? I doubt it. They would probably only do something worse.”
“The ordinary man takes very little interest in public affairs until they interfere with his private affairs.”
“There is a taint about money earned by honest work. By the time one has earned enough of it one has got into such a habit of work that one does not know how to idle.”
“C-3 kindness is too often A-1 cruelty. If the birds could speak, who doubts that they would begin their morning chant with a prayer to us to abandon out well-meant efforts to protect them?”
"Every day, life, as we see it reflected in the newspapers, becomes more and more like a novel written by Edgar Wallace."
"Virtue may seem as sleepy as a cat, but she is dangerous when she sleeps."
"The discovery of new notes of sympathy is the secret of all good conversation."
"Morals, like laws, were invented for our neighbors, and it is out secret conviction that we ourselves could get along without them."
"The chief objection to growing old is not that one grows old oneself, but that the world grows older, and it is not so much that the world grows older as that the world we once knew is in ruins."
"Too many Nelsons would spoil a navy, and one blind eye is enough for a fleet."
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
“There has never been a satisfactory definition of what constitutes a gentleman. I have been called a gentleman myself.”
“There must be a mild pleasure in irritating other people by going about the world with a sweet and sickly and intolerable smile. But I doubt whether the smilers are happier than the scowlers. There is a fierce delight to get from scowling.”
“Loudly as many of us protest against noise, we know in our hearts that the really terrifying thing is silence.”
“There are only two sure means of forgetfulness known to a man — work and drink — and, of the two, work is the more economical.”
“Liberty is not a way of working out men’s destinies for them, but a way of enabling them to work out their own destinies.”
“International sport is war without shooting.”
“It is in games that many men discover their paradise.”
“It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one’s own suffering.”
“The lowbrow often believes that a bad book is good, while the highbrow often believes that a good book is bad.”
“The rich never feel so good as when they are speaking of their possessions as responsibilities.”
“It is only in literature that coincidences seem unnatural.”
“Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.”
“Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The thing that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.”
“If you look up a dictionary of quotations you will find few reasons for a sensible man to desire to become wealthy.”
“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strange you simply because it is Christmas.”
“There is more love-poetry in a page of Browning than in all the verse Whitman ever wrote.”
“If nobody bought books except those who read them, the publishers of some of those cheap editions of the popular classics would also be leaner and sadder men.”
“However this may be, I never could read a library book without feeling as if I were eating off somebody else’s plate.”
"The English are patient people. If they were not they would not have so many bad hotels."
"The sense of one's ignorance is a much more useful thing than the sense of one's knowledge."
"THE truth is, our clothes make us to a great extent what we are."