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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton