The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Quote by Gilbert K Chesterton

Topics: Lost Love Quotes, Love Quotes

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger...

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger...

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to...

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to...

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over......

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over......

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is...

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is...

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it...

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it...

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity...

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity...

Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being...

Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being...

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to...

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to...

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may...

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may...

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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...

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do...

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do...

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that...

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that...

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.