I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. – Lin Yutang
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. – 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