Top 29 Robert Staughton Lynd Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Robert Staughton Lynd

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

#2. My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea ... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it.

Francis Ford Coppola

#3. Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#4. A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

Andre Maurois

#5. I pursue my case, Monsieur, I speak English, Italian and German, and I want justice in all three languages. I have been damaged by unlove. It makes at inappropriate moments when I should be dignified.

Deborah Levy

#6. I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

Bobby Thomson

#7. Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#8. You've never potty-trained a toddler, have you, Johanna? It's like working as a ball boy at Wimbledon, but with shit. And it goes on for months. With people crying at you.

Caitlin Moran

#9. Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.

Woody Allen

#10. Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

Robert Staughton Lynd

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

Robert Staughton Lynd

#12. 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

#13. John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Jonathan Galassi

#14. 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

#15. But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

Sally Ride

#16. Why have all the pieces joined together to create such a cruel fate?

Ichtys

#17. [History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#18. When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#19. There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.

Rebecca West

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

Robert Staughton Lynd

#21. 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.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#22. Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#23. 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

#24. Towering in front of them was the biggest private jet of them all, the gold lettering along the side spelling three distinct words: Diamond Resorts Worldwide.

Michelle Madow