Lin Yutang Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
11 most famous Lin Yutang quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”
“Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.”
“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.”
“Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.”
“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.”
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”
“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.”
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