Author: Lin Yutang

Quotes

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.

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

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

- 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

- Lin Yutang

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

- Lin Yutang

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

- Lin Yutang

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