Lin Yutang Wise Quotations

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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.

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!

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.