187 Quotes by Lin Yutang

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

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us.

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

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

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.