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.
G. K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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