Best Lin Yutang Quotes
- Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. Accepted
- All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire… Admitted
- Neckties strangle clear thinking. Clear
- Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought. Depth
- Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it. Business
- All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in… Aboard
- The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans… Achievement
- True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy. Accepting
- After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes… All
- Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason. Characteristic
- A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far. Carries
- There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. Beautiful
- How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell… Able
- O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living… Civilization
- I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. Clear
- Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion. Digestion
- Best behavior means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior. Behavior
- Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to… Bed
- I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to… Any
- All human happiness is sensuous happiness. All
- When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads. Chop
- The end of living is the true enjoyment of it. End
- In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship… Asylum
- A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already. Afternoon
- No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature. All