Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936
Birthday: May 29
Death: June 14
Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.
topic: Horse, Thinking, Race, Flippant, Sitting Still, Rocking Chairs, Rocking Horses
