Lin Yutang Quotes

Posted on September 19, 2005

I originally read the first quote below in Getting Things Done by David Allen. I really feel better about some of my weekends after discovering the second quote.

• 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.

• If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

• Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.