187 Quotes by Lin Yutang

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

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.

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

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

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 willgive him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.

One dies without regret if there is one in the whole world a "bosom friend," or one who "knows his heart.