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13535 quotesArt consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Arts and Artists
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Arts and Artists
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Temperament
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Adversity
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
Good and Evil
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Experience
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Committees and Meetings
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
Wealth
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Problems
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
Patriotism
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Knowledge
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
Hatred
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Adversity
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Argument
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Silence is the unbearable repartee.
Silence
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
Status
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Cosmos
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
Gold
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
Innocence
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Poverty and The Poor
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Terrorism
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Books - Reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
Trains
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Fame
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
Travel and Tourism
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun