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Enough Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
- To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
- There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go,…
- The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle,…
- The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more…
- It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.
- If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough…
- All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor…
- Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
- A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask…
- The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
- So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud…
- What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
- The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough…
- As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough…
- Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
- The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was…
- A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
- There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
- 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…
- It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might…
- That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
- Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
- Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give…
- The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange
- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's… — Fred Astaire
- And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else. — Mackenzie Astin
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe