The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTONLying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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When 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.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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