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Better Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf;…
- Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it…
- To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the…
- . . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better…
- Half a truth is better than no politics.
- Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in…
- Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to…
- The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much…
- Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano;…
- It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
- No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or…
- ...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that…
- It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I…
- Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing…
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- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
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- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
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- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius