The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G. K. CHESTERTONMarriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
G. K. CHESTERTONStick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
G. K. CHESTERTONReason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
G. K. CHESTERTONA really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. CHESTERTONI don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
G. K. CHESTERTONYou cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
G. K. CHESTERTONA thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
G. K. CHESTERTONCIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONAll men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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