Lyn Yutang

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

There is nothing more beautiful in the world than a healthy wise old man

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad

I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the un-admitted desire to undress

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

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

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.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

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

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.

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.

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.