Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Funny
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.
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Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.
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I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
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Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.
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No man knows he is young while he is young.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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