K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
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.
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.
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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.
progress settled simply
As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
love might realize scholars-and-scholarship
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
miracles wonderful
The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.
asks desires head heavens logician poet seeks
The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.