Lin Yutang Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: October 10, 1895 - March 26, 1976
Birthday: October 10
Death: March 26
What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.
source: Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.31, Read Books Ltd
topic: Loyalty, Appreciation, Sweet, Sweet Potatoes, Uncle Sam, Doughnut, Macaroni
