K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
body destroying difficult health preserve trouble trying
The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
trying calling fields
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
race always-trying dodge
The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
health science always-trying
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
men trying looks
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
school law trying
The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.
thinking greed trying
It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.
intelligent trying goes-on
The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.
trying littles lasts
I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.
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.