(21 quotes found)
“Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.”
Robert Lynd
“I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.”
“It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.”
“Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long”
“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's Christmas, there are other people who want to strangle you just because its Christmas”
“One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge”
“Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead”
“Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.”
“It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.”
“The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.”
