Lin Yutang quotes

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

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

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.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

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.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

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.