Lin Yutang Quotes

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, fam...

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not kno...

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it ...

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the roa...

There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "...

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, fam...

Reality - Dreams = Animal BeingReality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)Reality + Hu...

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed,counts at the tips of his fingers ...

Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says...

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to , and a perfect traveler does not ...

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dre...

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time an...

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The w...

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to ...

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how t...

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.