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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.
— Robert Lynd
![Robert Lynd Quotes By Robert Staughton Lynd: [History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robert-lynd-quotes-by-robert-staughton-lynd-60648.jpg "Robert Lynd Quotes By Robert Staughton Lynd: [History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard")
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
— Robert Lynd
There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.
— Robert Lynd
It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before.
— Robert Lynd
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.
— Robert Lynd
Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.
— Robert Lynd
It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
Almost any game with any ball is a good game.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
