#only

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#bait #modesty #only #praise #sure

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#all things #great things #only #peak #sees

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#clearness #exult #invisibility #love #obscurity

The only defensible war is a war of defense. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#only #war

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#catching #discovered #ever #i #miss

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#binds #blunders #friendship #honesty #mushrooms

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#bored #boring #children #i #i always

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#cannot #capacity #energy #enough #even

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#come #complete #feel #humanity #imperfect

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#going #i #nervous #only #owner