Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang.
| Born | Lin Ho-lok October 10, 1895 Amoy, Fujian Province, China |
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| Died | March 26, 1976 Hong Kong |
Chinese writer. Author of The Importance of Living (1937) and Between Tears and Laughter (1943). Translated many works of classical Chinese literature into English.
The repository contains two quotes from Lin Yutang.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
The good traveler is he who is ignorant about his destination. The perfect traveler is ignorant of his point of origin.
