We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
G. K. CHESTERTONMarriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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