Best John Cheever Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Cheever
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness. — John Cheever
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. — John Cheever
Best Anton Chekhov Quotes: The most famous quotes by Anton Chekhov
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. — Anton Chekhov
Man is what he believes. — Anton Chekhov
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. — Anton Chekhov
Best Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Quotes: The most famous quotes by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he’s been given. But up to now he hasn’t been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life’s become extinct, and the climate’s ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
If you cry ‘Forward’ you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don’t you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Best Cher Quotes: The most famous quotes by Cher
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. — Cher
Best Rose Cherin Quotes: The most famous quotes by Rose Cherin
Heirlooms we don’t have in our family. But stories we’ve got. — Rose Cherin
Best Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko Quotes: The most famous quotes by Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko
Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs. — Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko
Best Charles W. Chesnutt Quotes: The most famous quotes by Charles W. Chesnutt
There’s time enough, but none to spare. — Charles W. Chesnutt
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards. — Charles W. Chesnutt
Best Lord Chesterfield Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lord Chesterfield
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. — Lord Chesterfield
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. — Lord Chesterfield
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. — Lord Chesterfield
Common sense is the best sense I know of. — Lord Chesterfield
Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. — Lord Chesterfield
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. — Lord Chesterfield
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. — Lord Chesterfield
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. — Lord Chesterfield
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. — Lord Chesterfield
Best Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Quotes: The most famous quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Ridicule is the best test of truth. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The more one works, the more willing one is to work. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody’s torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Best Phillip Chesterfield Quotes: The most famous quotes by Phillip Chesterfield
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. — Phillip Chesterfield
Best G. K. Chesterton Quotes: The most famous quotes by G. K. Chesterton
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. — G. K. Chesterton
Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity. — G. K. Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. — G. K. Chesterton
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. — G. K. Chesterton
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. — G. K. Chesterton
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. — G. K. Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. — G. K. Chesterton
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. — G. K. Chesterton
A room without books is like a body without a soul. — G. K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — G. K. Chesterton
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. — G. K. Chesterton
I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean. — G. K. Chesterton
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. — G. K. Chesterton
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. — G. K. Chesterton
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. — G. K. Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. — G. K. Chesterton
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. — G. K. Chesterton
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. — G. K. Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — G. K. Chesterton
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. — G. K. Chesterton
Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. — G. K. Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people. — G. K. Chesterton
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. — G. K. Chesterton
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. — G. K. Chesterton
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. — G. K. Chesterton
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. — G. K. Chesterton
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. — G. K. Chesterton
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. — G. K. Chesterton
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem. — G. K. Chesterton
Best Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Best Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It’s that they can’t see the problem. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return….Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God ‘No,’ said Father Brown. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Materialists and madmen never have doubts. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Coincidences are spiritual puns. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Best Maurice Chevalier Quotes: The most famous quotes by Maurice Chevalier
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. — Maurice Chevalier
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. — Maurice Chevalier
Best Joseph T. Chew Quotes: The most famous quotes by Joseph T. Chew
Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. — Joseph T. Chew
Best Madame Chiang Quotes: The most famous quotes by Madame Chiang
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past. — Madame Chiang
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government. — Madame Chiang
Best May-lin Soong Chiang Quotes: The most famous quotes by May-lin Soong Chiang
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past. — May-lin Soong Chiang
We become what we do. — May-lin Soong Chiang
Best Bill Chickering Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bill Chickering
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart. — Bill Chickering
Best A Chinese Child Quotes: The most famous quotes by A Chinese Child
An American is a man with two arms and four wheels. — A Chinese Child
Best Julia Child Quotes: The most famous quotes by Julia Child
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child
Best Lydia M. Child Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lydia M. Child
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. — Lydia M. Child
Best Lydia Maria Child Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lydia Maria Child
The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love.’ It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. — Lydia Maria Child
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather’s house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. — Lydia Maria Child
Best Alice Childress Quotes: The most famous quotes by Alice Childress
A gift – be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love – explains itself… and if receivin’ it embarrasses you, it’s because your ‘thanks box’ is warped. — Alice Childress
Best Lawton Chiles Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lawton Chiles
We have entered the era of the ‘imperial’ former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege. — Lawton Chiles
Best Chilo Quotes: The most famous quotes by Chilo
The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure. — Chilo
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse. — Chilo
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. — Chilo
Best Edward Chilton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Edward Chilton
I’m worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It’s not holding a charge. — Edward Chilton
Best Frederick Chiluba Quotes: The most famous quotes by Frederick Chiluba
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world. — Frederick Chiluba
Best Jerry Chin Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jerry Chin
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. — Jerry Chin
Best I Ching Quotes: The most famous quotes by I Ching
The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. — I Ching
No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess. — I Ching
Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil. — I Ching
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations. — I Ching
Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none. — I Ching
Creativity comes from awakening and directing men’s higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven. — I Ching
A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations. — I Ching
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. — I Ching
When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed. — I Ching
Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones. — I Ching
He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair. — I Ching
Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it. — I Ching
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. — I Ching
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. — I Ching
The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements. — I Ching
Best Tao Le Ching Quotes: The most famous quotes by Tao Le Ching
The more you know, the less you understand. — Tao Le Ching
It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar. — Tao Le Ching
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. — Tao Le Ching
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. — Tao Le Ching
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