English - Poet | July 27, 1870 - July 16, 1953
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc
LifeTravelMy LifeTraveledWander
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
TeaBreakfastMeLunchDinnerHuman
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
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The grace of God is courtesy.
GodGraceCourtesy
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
FriendshipLonelinessMenSpaceCold
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
WorkGodRunLastFortnightWould
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
LoveTimeMoneyTiredMeMore
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
RememberNothingContentMakeWho
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
LoveBeginningLaughterWinningOut
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
I AmWritingBookI CanWriteDull
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
HopeI AmSaidDeadMayBooks
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