I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. – 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
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
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. – Lin Yutang
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle