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Lyn Yutang Quotes

«Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.»
Author: Lyn Yutang | Keywords: cooks, lap, lap of the gods
«Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India»
«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.»
Author: Lyn Yutang | About: Words | Keywords: anymore, goodness, mercy, sick, values
«When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set»
Author: Lyn Yutang | About: Beginning
«A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from»
Author: Lyn Yutang | About: Travel | Keywords: traveler
«Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.»
Author: Lyn Yutang | About: Society | Keywords: polished
«The wise man reads both books and life itself.»
Author: Lyn Yutang | Keywords: reads
«All Chinese are Confucianists when successful, and Taoists when they are failures»
Author: Lyn Yutang
«There is nothing more beautiful in the world than a healthy wise old man»
Author: Lyn Yutang | About: Beauty | Keywords: old man
«This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.»
Author: Lyn Yutang

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