Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutangwas 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...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 October 1895
CountryChina
men talking conviction
Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.
mother believe finals
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.
men matter nothing-matters
Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.
life ends enjoyment
The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.
men simplicity doe
We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
reading men world
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.
insane asylums west
In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.
men afternoon clock
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
men hatred together
An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.
men respectable respectability
No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
writing use good-writers
He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.
space rooms leisure
It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.
summer country wall
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.
people unhappy world
Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.