Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

- Robert Wilson Lynd

Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began…

- Robert Wilson Lynd

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 th…

- Robert Wilson Lynd

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

- Robert Wilson Lynd

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

- Robert Wilson Lynd

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

- Robert Wilson Lynd

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

- Robert Wilson Lynd

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

- Robert Wilson Lynd

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 Wilson Lynd