Lin Yutang Quotes

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 do.

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

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.

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

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

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

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.