Bassy

“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”
― Lin Yutang

“If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

“In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

“There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence. ”
― Lin Yutang, Pleasures of a Nonconformist