Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Children Quotes, Men Quotes

It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

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Property belongs to man and not man to property.

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The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

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My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

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Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

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We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

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You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

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Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

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I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.

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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

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There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.

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We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

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If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

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