I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. G. K. Chesterton Adversity You May Also Like The course of true love never did run smooth. By William Shakespeare Adversity, Love, Relationship Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too. By Lawrence Bixby Adversity Adversity is the first path to truth. By Lord Byron Adversity, Inspirational, Truth Keep your temper. Do not quarrel with an angry person, but give him a soft answer. It is commanded by the Holy Writ, and furthermore, it makes your opponent madder than anything else you could say. By Anonymous Adversity, Anger, Conflict management, Wise Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist—it reduces him to his fighting weight. By Josh Billings Adversity We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. By Seneca the Younger Adversity, Wise You May Also Like from G. K. Chesterton Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. By G. K. Chesterton Giving back, Hope Life is serious all the time but living cannot be. . . . You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important—such as sex, death, and religion— you must have mirth or you will have madness. By G. K. Chesterton Grief Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. By G. K. Chesterton Art, Ethics, Morality To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. By G. K. Chesterton Inspirational, Life, Love, Positive, Wise It isn’t that they can’t see the solution, it’s that they can’t see the problem. By G. K. Chesterton Problem solving A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. By G. K. Chesterton Intelligence, Intuition, Women
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too. By Lawrence Bixby Adversity
Keep your temper. Do not quarrel with an angry person, but give him a soft answer. It is commanded by the Holy Writ, and furthermore, it makes your opponent madder than anything else you could say. By Anonymous Adversity, Anger, Conflict management, Wise
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist—it reduces him to his fighting weight. By Josh Billings Adversity
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. By Seneca the Younger Adversity, Wise
Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. By G. K. Chesterton Giving back, Hope
Life is serious all the time but living cannot be. . . . You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important—such as sex, death, and religion— you must have mirth or you will have madness. By G. K. Chesterton Grief
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. By G. K. Chesterton Art, Ethics, Morality
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. By G. K. Chesterton Inspirational, Life, Love, Positive, Wise
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution, it’s that they can’t see the problem. By G. K. Chesterton Problem solving
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. By G. K. Chesterton Intelligence, Intuition, Women
