Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
– Lin Yutang
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
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
– Lin Yutang
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
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
– Lin Yutang
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
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.