K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
moving angel fighting
What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.
fun angel devil
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
mean angel turkeys
A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.
angel reason
The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
cease happens nowadays people retirement work worst
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
apple goes heaven road wood
The road from heaven to Hereford / Where the apple wood of Hereford / Goes all the way to Wales.
alas england graves rule
And they that rule in England, / In stately conclave met, / Alas, alas for England / They have no graves as yet.
cute-love loved man short sweet-love
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
anyone blasphemy doubts itself religion survive
Blasphemy itself could not survive religion; if anyone doubts that, let him try to blaspheme Odin.
discovered exuberant nonsense round
Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.
country desperate drunk except patriot saying
My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.
anyone earth life mystery point riddle
We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.
although gentleman vulgar
Tea, although an Oriental, / Is a gentleman at least; / Cocoa is a cad and coward, / Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
boat owe stormy terrible
We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.