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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Jika sesuatu layak dilakukan, maka itu layak dilakukan dengan buruk.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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.

Jika kemakmuran dianggap sebagai hadiah kebajikan, itu akan dianggap sebagai gejala dari kebajikan.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.