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Lin Yutang [1895-1976] Chinese

Rank: 104
Author, Writer

Lin Yutang was a Chinese writer, translator, linguist and inventor. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West.

Travel, Food, Good, Home, Humor, Peace, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.	Food	101
The wise man reads both books and life itself.		102
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.	Good, Travel	103
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.		104
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.		105
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.	Home, Travel	106
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.	Humor	107
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.	Peace	108
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.		109
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.	Wisdom	110
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.		111

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