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Lin Yutang
Profession : Author
Birth : October 10, 1895
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
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 existence.
Lin Yutang
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin Yutang
A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
Lin Yutang
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Lin Yutang
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Lin Yutang