Robert Lynd Famous Quotes
There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
"No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil."
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.
Robert Lynd Quotations
"If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur."
Doug Larson
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Albert Einstein
Eating while seated makes one of large size eating while standing makes one strong.
Hindustani Proverb
"Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, 'Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know.' He stared telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought 'This story isn't too long.' But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, 'Uh-oh, this story is getting long.' But then the story was over, and I said to myself 'You know, that story wasn't too long after all.' I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things.
Mary Manin Boggs
"If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him."
Chinese Proverb
"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies"
Erich Fromm
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."
Benjamin Franklin