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Lin Yutang Quotes: 6

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    The Importance of Living

  • The wise man reads both books and life itself.

  • If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

    The Importance of Living