Lin Yutang Quotes - Page 6

Art is both creation and recreation.

Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.

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.

Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope.

Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!

If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.

The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.

Winter in Peking is insurpassable, unless indeed it is surpassed by the other seasons in that blessed city. For Peking is a city clearly marked by the seasons, each perfect in its own way and each different from the others.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

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

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

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