Quotes by : Lin Yutang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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