Quotes by : Lin Yutang

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 is....

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

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

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

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

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

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

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

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