Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Quote by Gilbert K Chesterton

Topics: Age Quotes

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

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

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably...

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably...

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential...

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential...

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting...

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting...

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

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

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

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying...

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying...

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us...

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us...

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for...

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for...

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read...

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read...

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar...

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar...

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to...

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to...

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven...

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven...

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in...

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in...

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of...

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of...

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.