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Thousand Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses…
- The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
- There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice…
- He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It…
- If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
- A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms,…
- Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
More Thousand Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. — Richard Bach
- The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. — Joan Baez
- The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams
- I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. — John Barrymore
- While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than… — John Adams
- I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. — Charles Baudelaire
- Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. — Joseph Addison
- What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a… — Ludwig van Beethoven
- The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. — Felix Adler
- The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker