It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. — 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
Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed? — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and… — 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
What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors,… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to… — 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
We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's… — 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 Image
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
