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Stills Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two…
- 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…
- It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.
- I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even…
- The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go…
- How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.
- The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent…
- A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So…
- If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
- Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was…
- The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man…
- Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers;…
- I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
- Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that…
- Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not…
- humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle
- Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
- I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
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- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden