Chinese Philosopher Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

Zooey Deschanel

#8. Expecting rain, the profile of a day
Wears its soul like a hat ...

John Ashbery

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

Lin Yutang

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

Lin Yutang

#11. Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

Kate Mosse

#12. She's sleeping now, happy as a kitten in a patch of sun.

Kristin Cashore

#13. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.

Robert H. Jackson

#14. I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

Chingy

#15. It had occurred to her that the ultimate expression of Tom Wolfe's 'saturation reporting' was possibly at hand: the copycat murder of the journalist, with the murderer finishing the piece and filing it, complete with photographs and videos.

David Cronenberg

#16. 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

#17. As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.

Kevin Hart

#18. With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

Warren Buffett

#19. O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn the house! You're soldiers - you must do your duty ... O burn the house! Burn the house! Burn the house!

Edward Bond

#20. I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

Ray Bradbury

#21. The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Chuck Daly

#22. 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

#23. I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I've always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn't make sense not to do it I guess.

Jason Aldean