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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Funny, Travel
All Things Considered (1908) "On Running after one's Hat"

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Simple, Doe, Way

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cities, Parks, Committees

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Country, America, Creeds

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education, Saint, Speak

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rocks, Moss, Rolling
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Church, World, Grows

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Sublime, Secret

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Mercy, Paradox

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Clever, Stupid, Men

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
Mean, Class, Giving
Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Mad, Logic
"Leo Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Birthday, Book, Writing

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Perfectionism, Not Perfect

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Soul, Pleasure, Worthy

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thinking, Sin, Pessimism
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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
Inspirational, Motivational, Success
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Encouragement, Heart, Tragedy

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Spiritual, Women, Long

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirty, Self, Circles

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Leadership, Thank You, Teacher
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wall, Discipline, Catholic
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gratitude, Atheist, Worst Moments

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fall, Brain, Want

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Heart, Liberty, Politics
"Varied Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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