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His Head Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
- Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men…
- The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the…
- The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And…
- He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
- A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is…
More His Head Quotes
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the… — Saint Basil
- With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in… — Buffalo Bill
- The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. — Elias Canetti
- The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives… — Unknown Author
- (In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going… — Bill Gates
- He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but… — Eleanor Farjeon