19 Quotes by Robert Staughton Lynd

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

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.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

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

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.