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"Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: car, funny, humor, religious
1,133 people liked it

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: education
120 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,503 people liked it

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit
171 people liked it

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, religion
472 people liked it

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: christianity
101 people liked it

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
— Ronald Reagan

tags: government, inspirational, politics
137 people liked it

"...here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart." [on Lord of the Rings]"
— C.S. Lewis

28 people liked it

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
— G.K. Chesterton

60 people liked it

"He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)"
— C.S. Lewis

tags: fantasy, god, goodness, safety, security
49 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,832 people liked it

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."
— G.K. Chesterton

32 people liked it

"It is a good rule . . . to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, wisdom
102 people liked it

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: women
1,153 people liked it

"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination
77 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,419 people liked it

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

757 people liked it

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity
217 people liked it

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: technology
14 people liked it

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: happiness
18 people liked it

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
— George Orwell

tags: liberty
57 people liked it

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
— George Orwell

tags: language, politics
226 people liked it

"The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy."

..."What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

12 people liked it

"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. "
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: patriotism, war
22 people liked it

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."
— Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading
41 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,153 people liked it

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. "
— C.S. Lewis

tags: family
223 people liked it

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: food, love, music
1,142 people liked it

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
— William Shakespeare

tags: friendship
652 people liked it

"Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal"
— William Shakespeare

344 people liked it

"I like being myself. Myself and nasty."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

38 people liked it

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
— William Shakespeare (Great Sonnets)

185 people liked it

"I would challenge to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!"
— William Shakespeare

173 people liked it

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

120 people liked it

"Brevity is the Soul of wit."
— William Shakespeare

95 people liked it

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
— William Shakespeare

35 people liked it

"How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world."
— William Shakespeare

34 people liked it

"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom."
— Elizabeth Gaskell

4 people liked it

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: literature
39 people liked it

"And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."
— William Shakespeare

28 people liked it

"Benedick: Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none.

Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing"
— William Shakespeare

tags: much-ado-about-nothing, shakespeare
22 people liked it

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come."
— William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

tags: dramatist, quotes
460 people liked it

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"
— Homer

tags: wisdom
33 people liked it

"Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine."
— Patrick Rothfuss

tags: books, reading
10 people liked it

"Even a fool learns something once it hits him."
— Homer (Iliad)

23 people liked it

"youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement."
— Homer

3 people liked it

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god
537 people liked it

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
— Various (Holy Bible: King James Version)

tags: bible, christian
28 people liked it

""All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.""
— Walter Scott

tags: education, homeschool
9 people liked it

"Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword."
— Walter Scott (Ivanhoe)

tags: nobility
3 people liked it

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