China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. — 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
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — 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
