"There is no proper time and place for……" — Lin Yutang
"There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere"
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83 Quotes by Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang has 83 quotes on this site.
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I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
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The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little…
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However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated…
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Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his…
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No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful…
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Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to…
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It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
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Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
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I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of…
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Art is both creation and recreation.
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus…
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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old…
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More Anywhere Quotes
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one of 2,209 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss…
— Fred Armisen
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
— Isaac Asimov
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
— Francis of Assisi
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes…
— Russell Baker
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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
— Alec Baldwin
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My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go…
— John Barrymore
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle,…
— Lewis Black
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not…
— Tony Blair
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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even…
— Mary J. Blige
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