217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road,
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The rolling English drunkard made the rolling/ English road./ A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round/ the shire.
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The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. The really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
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The successful businessman sometimes makes money by ability and experience, but he generally makes it by mistake.
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The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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The true object of all human life is play.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
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THE UNIVERSE: The most exquisite masterpiece ever composed by nobody.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
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The wine they drink in Paradise / They make in Haute Lorraine.
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The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
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The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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