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Lin Yutang Quotes & Sayings

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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live — Lin Yutang

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already. — Lin Yutang

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother — Lin Yutang

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer. — Lin Yutang

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in. — Lin Yutang

There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy. — Lin Yutang

Make No Distinctions — Lin Yutang

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. — Lin Yutang

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. — Lin Yutang

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine. — Lin Yutang

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason. — Lin Yutang

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness. — Lin Yutang

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it. — Lin Yutang

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials. — Lin Yutang

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. — Lin Yutang

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive. — Lin Yutang

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters, — Lin Yutang

The wise man reads both books and life itself. — Lin Yutang

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments. — Lin Yutang

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture. — Lin Yutang

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

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. — Lin Yutang

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

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing. — Lin Yutang

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

Of all the rights of woman, the greatest is to be a mother — Lin Yutang

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. — Lin Yutang

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable. — Lin Yutang

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. — Lin Yutang

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf. — Lin Yutang

We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color. — Lin Yutang

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. — Lin Yutang

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad. — Lin Yutang

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature. — Lin Yutang

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

All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. — Lin Yutang

As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini. — Lin Yutang

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks. — Lin Yutang

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it. — Lin Yutang

Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means. — Lin Yutang

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them. — Lin Yutang

The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more. — Lin Yutang

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind. — Lin Yutang

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey. — Lin Yutang

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought. — Lin Yutang

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

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy. — Lin Yutang

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. — Lin Yutang

So long as man is man, variety will still be the flavor of life. — Lin Yutang

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world. — Lin Yutang

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to , and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from. — Lin Yutang

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body. — Lin Yutang

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

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed? — Lin Yutang

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere — Lin Yutang

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

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads. — Lin Yutang

I regard the discovery of one's favorite author as the most critical event in one's intellectual development. — Lin Yutang

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. — Lin Yutang

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy. — Lin Yutang

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India — Lin Yutang

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food. — Lin Yutang

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from. — Lin Yutang

Best behavior means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior. — Lin Yutang

Art is both creation and recreation. — Lin Yutang

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far. — Lin Yutang

The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become. — Lin Yutang

Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with. — Lin Yutang

The passion fades, the remorse is eternal. — Lin Yutang

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. — Lin Yutang

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion. — Lin Yutang

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother. — Lin Yutang

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others. — Lin Yutang

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. — Lin Yutang

The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed. — Lin Yutang

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. — Lin Yutang

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man. — Lin Yutang

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. — Lin Yutang

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. — Lin Yutang

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy. — Lin Yutang

Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters. — Lin Yutang

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

The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear. — Lin Yutang

my formula for the Chinese national mind is: R4D1H3S3 There — Lin Yutang

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult. — Lin Yutang

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

Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom So — Lin Yutang

The moment a student gives up his right of personal judgment, he is in for accepting all the humbugs of life — Lin Yutang

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence. — Lin Yutang

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love. — Lin Yutang

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down. — Lin Yutang

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. — Lin Yutang

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves. — Lin Yutang

An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together. — Lin Yutang