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Gilbert K. Chesterton

English Writer

Born: May 29, 1874

Died: Jun 14, 1936

Great Life Man Men Only You

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Government Democracy Badly Aristocracy Educated Uneducated While Means

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Success Best Respect Advice Respectfully Exact Exact Opposite Having Doing Opposite Very Owe Going Going Away Listened Then Away

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art Experience Long Enough Lying Draw Pencil Would Would-Be Only Perfect Colored Had Supreme Altogether Bed Ceiling

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sports Way Expensive Regard Golf Marbles Playing

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Heart Eye Through Road Does Go Intellect

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Temperament Amateur Afflicts Disease Artistic

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Woman Intelligence Find Intuition Support Reasons Uses Her

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sometimes Rich Badly Always Governed Being Poor

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. Gilbert K. Chesterton

You Win Will Long Lose Think Determines Until How

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mind Mouth Solid Object Something Opening Again Shut

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love Worship Exult Only Obscurity Invisibility Clearness Very Anything Really

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christian Difficult Has-Been Tried Ideal Been Left Wanting Found

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. Gilbert K. Chesterton

You Man Will Crush Him Understand Very Cannot

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Before Way Only Miss Catching Sure Train

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man Hide Cosmos About Head Smallest His Hole

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love Humanity Believe Those Would Would-Be Had Perhaps Itself Gods Any Often Cannot Them Who Assert Sufficient Thinkers

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good Religion You Joke About Test Whether

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Veterans Day Men Softness Toughness Surface Brave Brave Men Middle

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Gilbert K. Chesterton

You Happy Miserable Drink Never Because

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