The Wall of Quotes
“It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.”
- Martin Luther
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
- Socrates
“When I have a little money, I buy books. If any is left over, I buy food and clothes.”
- Erasmus
“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
“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”
- G. K. Chesterton (again)
“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”
- G. K. Chesterton (one more time)
“Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.”
- Sydney J. Harris
“True love is easier to find with a helicopter.”
- Unknown, seen on a website about climbing mountains, oddly enough
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
- C. S. Lewis
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
- C. S. Lewis
“The brave don’t live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all. Here’s to the brave!”
“The mountains will always be there, the trick is to make sure you are, too.”
- Hervey Voge
“Civilization is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. ”
- Peter Bingen
“Pain heals, chicks dig scars . . . and glory never fades.”
- Paige Braddock
“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing . . . after they have exhausted all other possibilities.”
- Winston Churchill
“Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain-tops are within reach.”
- John Muir
“Of course you can trust the government . . . just ask the Indians.”
- No idea who said it.
“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ”
- G. K. Chesterton.
“There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.”
- G. K. Chesterton
“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”
- G. K. Chesterton
“If you understand what you’re doing, then you’re not learning anything.”
- I have no idea who said this. But it sums up a lot of my life, including this blog.