Some Jokes of Chesterton

Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 March 1917, Page 1

Some Jokes of Chesterton

"If ia man really cannot make a fool of himself, we may be quite certain that the effort is superfluous.' "It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage mfcroliy paid the average men the compliment of taking him at his word." "The root of legal marriage does not lie in the fact that the man is a mere tryant and the woman, a mere slave. It lies in the fact that if their love for each other is the noblest and, finest Jlove it can only find its heroic expression in both becoming slaves." "The world has kept sentimentalities simply because tliev are the most practical things in the world. They alone make men do things. The world does not encourage a quite rational lover because a. perfectly rational lover would never get married. The world does not encourage a perfectly rational army, because ia perfectly rational army would run away." "The English (statesman is bribed not to be bribed. He is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, so that he may never afterwards be found with silver spoons in his pocket." "What happens when everyone is asleep is called evolution. What happens when everyone is awake is called Revolution." Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It obviates the crude requirements of polygamy. If jylou have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem." "If there were a fashionable hotel in London where no mail could enter who was under six feet, society would meekly make up parties of six-foot men to dine in it. If there were an expensive restaurant which by a- mere caprice of its proprietor was only open on Thursday afternoon, it would be crowded on Thursday afternons."— The G. K. Chesterton Calendar.