217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
 The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road, |
| The rolling English drunkard made the rolling/ English road./ A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round/ the shire. |
| 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. |
| The simplification of anything is always sensational. |
| The successful businessman sometimes makes money by ability and experience, but he generally makes it by mistake. |
| 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. |
| The true object of all human life is play. |
| The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. |
| THE UNIVERSE: The most exquisite masterpiece ever composed by nobody. |
| The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. |
| The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it. |
| The wine they drink in Paradise / They make in Haute Lorraine. |
| 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. |
| The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. |
| The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. |
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