Aristotle in Britain?

This week I've just listed a few quotes by a man who is now considered one of the most quotable authors of all time. Who was this great genius? He was round and jolly. He was incredibly witty and yet terribly complex. He loved a joke but discussed the most serious of subjects. He wrote about history and yet some of his writings seemed to predict the future. He possessed the spirit of a child but the wisdom of a genius. Poet, fiction writer, author of many books and countless essays, this 20th century British author knew how to express the truth about life in a way unlike anyone else. His name was G.K. Chesterton. Below are just a handful of his witty sayings. Also many thanks to www.quotationspage.com for the quotes listed!

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

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

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.

 

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

 It's a remarkable thing to think what kind of mind this man had. His gift brings both humor and clarity to a Tangled world.