Chinese Philosopher For His Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC, however many historians contend that Laozi

Lao-Tzu

#3. To quote Shirley Polanski, head waitress at the Humdinger Diner: "Beware of a big man whose stomach doesn't move when he laughs."
I think a Chinese philosopher said it first, but these things trickle down to the food service community.

Joan Bauer

#4. Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

Patrick Stump

#5. A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

John Le Carre

#6. As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

James Hong

#7. The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well would immediately feel shock and alarm, and that this impulse, this universal capacity for commiseration, was proof positive that man is inherently good.

T. Greenwood

#8. The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

Mason Cooley

#9. Practical theology is the need to interpret the "where" of Jesus Christ in our experiences of the now.

Andrew Root

#10. Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

Lin Yutang

#11. Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

Lin Yutang

#12. Oh , kinda playing things by ear

Norman Mailer

#13. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.

Tom Stoppard

#14. Somehow you always stayed quiet." He laid his hands beside each of mine, so that if he'd been solid, I would've been pinned between his body and the dresser. "Remember?

Jeri Smith-Ready

#15. The situations depicted in the Book of Changes are the primary data of life
what happens to everybody, every day, and what is simple and easy to understand.

Hellmut Wilhelm