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Why Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling…
- Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was…
- 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…
- The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions;…
- All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the…
- Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
- A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask…
- Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in…
- Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you.…
- 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.
- Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
- People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books…
- What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there…
- Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I…
- He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
- It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend…
- There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick.…
- She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.
More Why Quotes
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad
- What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they… — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood