All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
From Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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