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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.
Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.
Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.
There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle
There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.