Robert Lynd Quotes

The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.

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

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

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.

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

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

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.