K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
love might realize scholars-and-scholarship
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
home might turnips
If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.
men might know-how
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be...
judging mind might
And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
art lines might
A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
men might boyhood
Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.
looks might deities
When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.
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.