Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise. Lin Yutang More Quotes by Lin Yutang More Quotes From Lin Yutang Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. Lin Yutang ayurvedacookingfood I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. Lin Yutang autumnsummerspring It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable. Lin Yutang leisurespacerooms All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. Lin Yutang struggleagecountry A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far. Lin Yutang carrietendenciesgoal The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened. Lin Yutang pity-lovefeelingscharacter Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. Lin Yutang inner-peaceacceptedmind All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. Lin Yutang halfmotherdoe Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly. Lin Yutang dogwintermen Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother Lin Yutang mothers-dayparentingmom Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments. Lin Yutang bluebirdmoments Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it. Lin Yutang serious-businesstoo-shortlife It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. Lin Yutang dreamlovemen An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together. Lin Yutang hatredtogethermen Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others. Lin Yutang convictiontalkingmen Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason. Lin Yutang characteristicsreasonplay 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 fear-of-deathablemen O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play! Lin Yutang wisehairmen Even in despair, man must laugh. Lin Yutang laughterlaughingmen It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. Lin Yutang believewayreligion
