Lin Yutang Quotes - Page 5

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• No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

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  Men, Respectable, Respectability

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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• The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

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  Son, Needs, Life Is

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

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  Philosophy, Views, Objectivity

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

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  Mean, Behavior, Uncomfortable

  "Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living".

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• Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

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  Art, Thinking, Play

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• As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.

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  Appreciation, Understanding, Done

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

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  Taste, Reader, Ifs

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

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  Thinking, Neckties, Clear

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• 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.

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  Play, Reason, Characteristics

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

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  Common Sense, Spirit, Logic

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

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  Food, Cooking, Serious

  Yutang Lin (1936). “My country and my people”

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• 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!

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  Wise, Men, Hair

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

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  Hero, Mean, Men

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• Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.

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  Kings, Men, Common

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.11, Read Books Ltd

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• I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

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  Personality, Sense Of Humor, Affair

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• 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.

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  Dog, Pet, Degenerates

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.

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  Christian, Wise, Teaching

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• The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

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  Life, Ends, Enjoyment

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• 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.

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  Character, Pity Love, Feelings

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• China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

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  World, Facts, Modern

  Yutang Lin (1935). “The Little Critic: Essays, Satire and Sketches on China (second Series: 1933-1935)”

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• Art is both creation and recreation.

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  Art, Creation, Recreation

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• When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

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  People, Liberty, Demand

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• Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.

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  Misunderstood, May

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.6, Read Books Ltd

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• There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Rose, Heathers

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.4, Read Books Ltd

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• If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.

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  Life, Morning, Lying

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