Quotes by : Lin Yutang

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

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

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

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.

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

There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never....

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

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

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