Lin Yutang Quotes

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

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

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.