15 Quotes by Robert Lynd

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

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.

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.

The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.