Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
A yawn is a silent shout. -- G.K. Chesterton | |
To downgrade the human mind is bad theology. - C. K. Chesterton | |
"My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober." -- G.K. Chesterton, "The Defendant" | |
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday" | |
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. -- G.K. Chesterton | |
You will find me drinking gin In the lowest kind of inn, Because I am a rigid Vegetarian. -- G.K. Chesterton | |
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G.K. Chesterton | |
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully interferes. -- G.K. Chesterton | |
Coincidences are spiritual puns. -- G.K. Chesterton | |
If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly. -- G.K. Chesterton |