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Funny Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
- There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
- It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
- The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
- We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
- To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
- People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
- Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
- It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a…
- Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and…
- There is no bigot like the atheist.
- Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.
- It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
- Theology is only thought applied to religion.
- You can't have the family farm without the family.
- The only object of liberty is life.
- A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
- Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
- There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
- Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the…
- Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
- Half a truth is better than no politics.
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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
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- I love recording music. — J. J. Abrams
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin