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Lin Yutang Quotes
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![Somewhere in [China’s] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul! Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/803/802582/802582.webp "Somewhere in [China’s] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul! Picture Quote #1")
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Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother (Lin Yutang Quotes)
Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters (Lin Yutang Quotes)
Neckties strangle clear thinking (Lin Yutang Quotes)
Creative work carries with it a form of intense love (Lin Yutang Quotes)
An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together (Lin Yutang Quotes)
I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth (Lin Yutang Quotes)
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams Humor = Fantasy Reality Dreams Humor = Wisdom (Lin Yutang Quotes)
Somewhere in [China’s] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul! (Lin Yutang Quotes)
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 (Lin Yutang Quotes)
The moment a student gives up his right of personal judgment, he is in for accepting all the humbugs of life (Lin Yutang Quotes)
Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed? (Lin Yutang Quotes)
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy. (Lin Yutang Quotes)
Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise (Lin Yutang Quotes)
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. (Lin Yutang Quotes)
Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother (Lin Yutang Quotes)
By association with nature’s enormities, a man’s heart may truly grow big also (Lin Yutang Quotes)
To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult. (Lin Yutang Quotes)
The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady’s pet, is only a degenerate wolf. (Lin Yutang Quotes)
Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man. (Lin Yutang Quotes)
He who is afraid to use an I in his writing will never make a good writer (Lin Yutang Quotes)
The only test of a soul's salvation is it's inward happiness (Lin Yutang Quotes)
There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man (Lin Yutang Quotes)
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 (Lin Yutang Quotes)
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst (Lin Yutang Quotes)
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? (Lin Yutang Quotes)
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live (Lin Yutang Quotes)
The wise man reads both books and life itself (Lin Yutang Quotes)
No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature (Lin Yutang Quotes)
The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy (Lin Yutang Quotes)
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials (Lin Yutang Quotes)