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7190 quotesThe only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
Trains
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Plays
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Vulgarity
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Love
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
Wonder
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Stupidity
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
Convalescence
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Age and Aging
Maurice Chevalier
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Life itself is the proper binge.
Life and Living
Julia Child
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Fathers
Lydia M. Child
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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Judgment and Judges
Lydia M. Child
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Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Honesty
Chilo
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Wisdom
Chinese Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Decisions
Chinese Proverb
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All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
Family
Chinese Proverb
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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Wisdom
Chinese Proverb
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Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Blame
Chinese Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Children
Chinese Proverb
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
Experience
Chinese Proverb
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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Conscience
Chinese Proverb
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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
Heart
Chinese Proverb
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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
Family
Chinese Proverb
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Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.
Caution
Chinese Proverb
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One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.
Complaints and Complaining
Chinese Proverb
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Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Patience
Chinese Proverb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun