More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. 'Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be…
  2. I've searched all the parks in all the cities And found no statues of committees.
  3. Fairy tales are more than true - not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
  4. Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
  5. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
  6. The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
  7. Men that are men again: Who goes home? Tocsin and trumpeter! Who goes home? For there's blood on the grass and blood on the foam, And blood…
  8. Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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