There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“The moment a student gives up his right of personal judgment, he is in for accepting all the humbugs of life” — lin yutang Copy Share Image
All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn,… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“The Genesis story of the reason why Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of Eden was not that they… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
“Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. — Lin Yutang Copy Share
Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. — Lin Yutang Copy Share
Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility… — Lin Yutang Copy Share
