187 Quotes by Lin Yutang

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.