Writer Quotes by Lin Yutang

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

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

— Lin Yutang

“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

An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

— Lin Yutang

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

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

— Lin Yutang

Art is both creation and recreation.

— Lin Yutang

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

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

— Lin Yutang

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

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

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

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

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

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