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First Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
- There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really…
- There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
- The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing…
- The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces…
- The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is…
- It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
- There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the…
- There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack…
- There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one…
- But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
- Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in…
- I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under…
- Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
- The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a…
- This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy…
- When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
- The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.
- ...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…
- On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying…
- You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people…
- A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with…
- There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred…
- I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of…
- Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong