Robert Staughton Lynd Famous Quotes



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


Robert Staughton Lynd Quotations






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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
Linnaeus

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.
Georges Bataille

In Mexico we have a word for sushi Bait.
Jose Simon

"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."
Albert Guinon

"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little."
Porterfield

"God bears with the wicked, but not forever."
Miguel de Cervantes

"I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe."
Richard Gere

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
George Santayana

"You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle."
William Jefferson Clinton

"Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton