Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

Quote by Robert Lynd

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There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's...

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's...

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can...

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can...

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's...

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's...

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

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

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was...

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was...

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

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

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

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or...

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or...

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet...

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet...

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it...

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it...

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own...

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own...

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else...

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else...

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

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

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

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time,...

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time,...

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions...

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions...

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of...

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of...

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and...

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and...

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is...

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is...