"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
Topic(s):
Change
More From Lin Yutang
- "This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought."
- "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."
- "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."
More In Change
- "Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."― Emma Goldman
- "But we are not in the world to be good but to change it."― Edward Bond
- "I can’t just say one time of the year I’m going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday."― Gabrielle Union