"On the other hand, you have different fingers."
E-mailed by Lorne Gunter; I do not know if it is original with him
"There is too much tendency to turn your life into an essay. I propose to make mine a story."
G.K. Chesterton in "Notebook" while in art school, quoted in Garry Wills Chesterton
"Strangely coinciding with human beings' ability to cooperate is our tendency to be extremely aggressive."
MSNBC Science June 5, 20125/6/12.
"This… is what is meant today by being broadminded: living on prejudices and never looking at them."
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 5, 1928, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6 p. 18.
"You can’t have both the penny and the bun."
David Warren in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 25, 2006
"That’s the whole story of pitching. Keep your life and your pitching real simple, and you’ll get along."
286-game winner Robin Roberts quoted in John Thorn and John Holway The Pitcher
"We have spent 200 years rediscovering the futility of man unredeemed by God - what G.K. Chesterton called the immense sadness of paganism."
British Columbia Report August 9, 1993 [I did not record the writer's name]
“The Epigrammatist: 'Mankind perishes. The world goes dark./ He racks his brains for a tart remark.'"
The last in a series of "Epigrams" in Chronicles magazine November 1988