Logo
Quote by Robert Lynd
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing

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. – Robert Lynd

Other quotes by Robert Lynd

Coleridge says that to bait a mouse-trap is as much as to say to the mouse, Come and have a piece of cheese, and then, when it accepts the invitation, to do it to death is a betrayal of the laws of hospitality. – Robert Lynd

Category:
Hospitality
Author
Robert Lynd
Read Quote

No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up. – Robert Lynd

Category:
Morning
Author
Robert Lynd
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Christmas
category

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you cant louse it up. – Leonard Maltin

Category:
Christmas

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted. – Olivia Williams

Category:
Christmas

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! – Hamilton Wright Mabie

Category:
Christmas

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesnt come from a store. – Dr. Seuss

Category:
Christmas

Random Quotes

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. – George Meredith

Category:
Jealousy

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. – Horace Walpole

Category:
Curmudgeonesque

If youre looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then youve got to go to Wisconsin. – Dar Williams

Category:
Attitude

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. – Zora Neale Hurston

Category:
Nature