Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe |
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. Author: Desiderius Erasmus |
In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king. Author: Desiderius Erasmus |
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. Author: Desiderius Erasmus |
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. Author: Francis Bacon |
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A yawn is a silent shout. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
Coincidences are spiritual puns. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. Author: G.K. Chesterton |
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. Author: G.K. Chesterton |