Quotes by Writers

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

You Happy Miserable Drink Never Because

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. Gilbert K. Chesterton

History You People Nothing See About Know Make Sort Who

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. Gilbert K. Chesterton

People Impartiality Indifference Mental Simply Partiality Call May Mean Activity

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness Life Time Broken Soul Happy Men Saved Nursery Something Only He Still Been His Loved Loves Who Two

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. Gilbert K. Chesterton

War Saying Good Man Son Mother Says Attack Over Until She Cliff Fallen His Patriot Warn Should Who

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Music Dinner Both Insult Cook Violinist

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Teacher Simply Dogmatic Teaching Who

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Democracy You Revolution Must Never Establish Order

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Wisdom God Home Father Temple Cosmic Architect Laws Mysterious Sacred Had Most Supreme Built His Godhead Behold

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Life Man Father Every Way Kinds Seeds He Came Conferred

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Everyone's always waiting for someone to falter. Glenn Ficarra

Waiting Everyone Someone Always Falter

I often see through things right to the apparition itself. Grace Paley

See Through Itself Often Right Things

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. Grace Paley

Mind Ten Student Until Began Wander Fantastic Then

I love doing research. It's like cheating, but with permission. Greg Rucka

Love Cheating Research Like Permission Doing

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. Gregory Keyes

Degrees Anthropology Friends Ape Worked Who

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was. Guy Davenport

Thought Evidence Retarded Child

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. Guy Finley

Life Winter Stream Spring Fall Energy Tree Summer Once One Area Sunlight Something Outlived Purpose Area Through Longer Leaf Another Existence Same Being Different Transfer Then Usefulness Captures Serve

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared. Guy Finley

Strength Degree Weakness Feared Within Any Which Us

All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things. Guy Finley

Good Those All Things Come Whom Things

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us. Guy Finley

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. Guy de Maupassant

War Government Duty Every Ship Shipwreck Much Avoid Captain