top of page
"It is in games that many men discover their paradise."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Man quotes

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
Explore more quotes by Robert Wilson Lynd

"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."

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

"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."
bottom of page