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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

- G. K. Chesterton | America and Americans Quotes

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

- G. K. Chesterton | Art and the Artist Quotes

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

- G. K. Chesterton | Conversation Quotes

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

- G. K. Chesterton | Courage and Bravery Quotes

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

- G. K. Chesterton | Democracy Quotes

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

- G. K. Chesterton | Enemies Quotes

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

- G. K. Chesterton | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

- G. K. Chesterton | Friends and Friendship Quotes

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

- G. K. Chesterton | Goodness and Giving Quotes

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

- G. K. Chesterton | Happiness Quotes

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

- G. K. Chesterton | The Home Quotes

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

- G. K. Chesterton | Life Quotes

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

- G. K. Chesterton | Men and Women Quotes

I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

- G. K. Chesterton | The Mind Quotes

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

- G. K. Chesterton | The Mind Quotes

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

- G. K. Chesterton | Mistakes and Blunders Quotes

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

- G. K. Chesterton | Money Quotes

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

- G. K. Chesterton | Music Quotes

Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

- G. K. Chesterton | Nature Quotes

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

- G. K. Chesterton | Order and Organization Quotes

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

- G. K. Chesterton | Poets and Poetry Quotes

New roads; new ruts.

- G. K. Chesterton | Progress Quotes

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

- G. K. Chesterton | Psychiatry Quotes

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

- G. K. Chesterton | Quips and Comments Quotes

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

- G. K. Chesterton | Reality Quotes

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

- G. K. Chesterton | Religion Quotes

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

- G. K. Chesterton | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

- G. K. Chesterton | Silence Quotes

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

- G. K. Chesterton | Society and Social Quotes

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

- G. K. Chesterton | Speakers and Speeches Quotes

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

- G. K. Chesterton | Travel and Travellers Quotes

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money, but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.

- G. K. Chesterton | Work Quotes

The true object of all human life is play.

- G. K. Chesterton | Happiness Quotes

No man can be merry unless he is serious.

- G. K. Chesterton | Happiness Quotes

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

- G. K. Chesterton | Happiness Quotes

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

- G. K. Chesterton | Acceptance Quotes

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, faith means believing the unbelievable, and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

- G. K. Chesterton | Forgiveness Quotes

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

- G. K. Chesterton | Forgiveness Quotes

It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.

- G. K. Chesterton | Forgiveness Quotes

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

- G. K. Chesterton | Forgiveness Quotes

True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous, and it is rare.

- G. K. Chesterton | Forgiveness Quotes

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

- G. K. Chesterton | Faith and Unity Quotes

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

- G. K. Chesterton | Self-Knowledge Quotes

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

- G. K. Chesterton | Simplicity Quotes

He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

- G. K. Chesterton | The Future Quotes

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

- G. K. Chesterton | Hope Quotes

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, Faith means believing the unbelievable, And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

- G. K. Chesterton | Hope Quotes

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

- G. K. Chesterton | Goals Quotes

The true object of human life is play.

- G. K. Chesterton | Goals Quotes

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

- G. K. Chesterton | Goals Quotes

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

- G. K. Chesterton | Courage Quotes

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

- G. K. Chesterton | Courage Quotes

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

- G. K. Chesterton | Getting Going Quotes

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

- G. K. Chesterton | Concentration Quotes

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

- G. K. Chesterton | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.

- G. K. Chesterton | Problems Quotes

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

- G. K. Chesterton | Worthy Victories Quotes

True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.

- G. K. Chesterton | Events Quotes

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

- G. K. Chesterton | Heartbreak Quotes

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

- G. K. Chesterton | Perseverance Quotes

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

- G. K. Chesterton | Religion Quotes

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

- G. K. Chesterton | Silence Quotes