Lin Yutang Quotes

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

Travel, Home, Beautiful

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang

Live, Learned, Afternoon

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.
Lin Yutang

Life, Art, Wisdom

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.
Lin Yutang

Peace, Justice, Liberty

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

Society, Exist, Says

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.
Lin Yutang

Good, Today, Kindness

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.
Lin Yutang

Hope, Country, Road

The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang

Life, Wise, Both

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

Lives, Gods, Cooks

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.
Lin Yutang

Good, Perfect, Traveller

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

Humor, Change, Character

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Author

Born: October 10, 1895

Died: March 26, 1976

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