Lin Yutang Frases famosas
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
The little critic: essays, satire and sketches on China (second series: 1933 ... - Página 143, Yutang Lin - The Commercial Press, 1935 - 258 páginas
“No Ocidente, pensa-se muito em sexo e pouco nas mulheres.”
is that in the West, people think too much of sex and too little of women.
Lin Yutang, in "Lin Yutang The Importance Of Living" ( 1937 http://www.archive.org/stream/linyutangtheimpo008763mbp/linyutangtheimpo008763mbp_djvu.txt)
The Importance of Living (1937)
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.
citado em "Pearls of Wisdom : A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" (1987) por Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, p. 46
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Lin Yutang frases e citações
The wise man reads both books and life itself. The universe is one big book, and life is one big school.
Lin Yutang, in "Lin Yutang The Importance Of Living" ( 1937 http://www.archive.org/stream/linyutangtheimpo008763mbp/linyutangtheimpo008763mbp_djvu.txt)
The Importance of Living (1937)
“Entre todos os direitos da mulher, nenhum é maior que o de ser mãe.”
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
My country and my people - página 152, de Yutang Lin, 5a. ed., Reynal & Hitchcock, 1935, 382 páginas
The world today is divided into smokers and non-smokers. It is true that the smokers cause some nuisance to the non-smokery but this nuisance is physical, while the nuisance that the non- smokers cause the smokers is spiritual.
Lin Yutang, in "Lin Yutang The Importance Of Living" ( 1937 http://www.archive.org/stream/linyutangtheimpo008763mbp/linyutangtheimpo008763mbp_djvu.txt)
The Importance of Living (1937)
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live
citado em "The Literary digest", Volume 124 - Página 32, Isaac Kaufman Funk - Funk and Wagnalls, 1938
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Lin Yutang: Frases em inglês
“True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst.”
Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 158
As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.
Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. IV : On Having A Stomach, p. 46
Fonte: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening, p. 12