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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Funny, Travel

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Believe, Evil

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Math, Statistics
Scandal of Father Brown (1935) "Point of a Pin"

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Food, Sarcasm
"Alarms And Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Friendship, God
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Life, Presence Of Mind

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Money, Clever
Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) "Paradise of Thieves"

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Spiritual, Dog

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Business, Humor
"The style guide editor on ... peer pressure and using people's proper names" by David Marsh, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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"

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Travel, Missing

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Respect, Humor
The Man WhoWas Thursday ch. 4 (1908)

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Dog, Wall

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Religious, Fall
"All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Humorous, Men
Tremendous Trifles "The Twelve Men" (1909)

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Men, Feels

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Funny, Life
"The Illustrated London News" Magazine, July 16, 1910.

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Real, Humorous

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Time, Sleep

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Witty, Time

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