Quotes by Lin Yu-tang

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless >>

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindne >>

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. >>

Quotations about Age and Aging

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars. >>

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they ar >>

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer >>

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang