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• 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." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)...
• A yawn is a silent shout. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
• The man who sees the consistency in things is a wit, the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)...
• The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)...
• The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterto...
• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- Gilbert K. Chesterto
• My next-door neighbor's little girl, 16 years old, pretty little girl--showed up just as pregnant as she could be.
  Her mama hit the ceiling. She said, "Who done it?...
• People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
• The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936), "Heretic...