#les

When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#going #holes #just #market #over

I don't care to be involved in the crash-landing unless I can be in on the take-off. ↗

— Harold Stassen

#i #i can #involved #unless

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! ↗

— Mary Chesnut

#could #discreet #i #if i could #into

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aim #another #endure #everybody #fear

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#comes #end #end of the world #episode #every

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#affair #less #love #love affair #more

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#appreciating #appreciation #having #less #life

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#compared #criminal #dangerous #entirely #essentially

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#appear #gods #invoke #much #never

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cosmos #head #hide #his #hole