“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless ...” — Lin Yutang Quote

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

“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”

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

“My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.”

“It is not uncommon to use a towel in afternoon matches, particularly in a place like Mohali in the month of April-May.”

“It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city.”