Lin Yutang

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#set #shadows #sun #men

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

— Lin Yutang

#taste #life

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#reading #art

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. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#country #existence #hope #into #like

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. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#does #going #good #know #perfect

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#basis #exactly #exist #lying #only

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#gods #lap #lives #our #our lives

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

#lawyers #liberty #many #peace #policemen

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#how #learned #live #manner #perfectly

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

#anymore #because #believe #good #goodness