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Way Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
- I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
- War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
- When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
- The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many…
- "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
- Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing;…
- Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the…
- But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
- There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or…
- Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of…
- 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…
- The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When…
- Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes…
- Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent…
- There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
- 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…
- The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not…
- The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
- I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly…
- 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…
- There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
- Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me…
- There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.
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