42? 7 and a half million years and all you can come up with is 42?!   
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.   
A friend: someone who likes you even after they know you.   
Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.   
Don't take life so seriously. It won't last.   
Everything changes except change.   
Facts are stubborn things.   
"The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys..."--Mere Christianity
"The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation."--The Weight of Glory
"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness."--The Weight of Glory
"Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."--The Weight of Glory
"If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself."--The Weight of Glory
"When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch."--The Weight of Glory
"As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism."--The Weight of Glory
"No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'"--The Weight of Glory
"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."--The Weight of Glory
"To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends."--The Weight of Glory
"100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."--The Weight of Glory
"When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude...that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing."--The Weight of Glory
"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later."--The Case for Christianity
"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."--The Case for Christianity
"Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it."--The Case for Christianity
"Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other."--The Case for Christianity
"Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed."--The Case for Christianity
"Badness is only spoiled goodness."--The Case for Christianity
"God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man."--The Case for Christianity
"Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it."--The Case for Christianity
"It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men."--Reflections on the Psalms
"I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation."--Reflections on the Psalms
"The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about."--Reflections on the Psalms
"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes."--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--"--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose."--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all."--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result."--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior."--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules."--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige."--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations."--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs."--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting."--The Allegory of Love 
"The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."--The Abolition of Man
"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."--The Abolition of Man
"Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism."--The Abolition of Man
"As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'"--The Abolition of Man
"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."--The Abolition of Man
"The preservation of society, and of the species itself, are ends that do not hang on the precarious thread of Reason: they are given by Instinct."--The Abolition of Man
"If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them."--The Abolition of Man
"An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy.--The Abolition of Man
"Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before." - Tremendous Trifles 
"A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man." - A Utopia of Usurers, CW, V, p396 
"The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice." - A Defense of Humilities, The Defendant, 1901 
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - Everlasting Man, 1925 
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - ILN, 4/19/30 
"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." - The Speaker, 12/15/00 
"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908 
"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism." - Sidelights on New London and Newer New York 
"He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head." - Tremendous Trifles, 1909 
"Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it." - A Miscellany of Men 
"Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity." - The Man Who was Thursday, 1908 
"The simplification of anything is always sensational." - Varied Types 
"Complaint always comes back in an echo from the ends of the world; but silence strengthens us." - The Father Brown Omnibus 
"Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish." - ILN 1-11-08 
"I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid." - ILN 6-3-22 
"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel." - "Sir Walter Scott," Twelve Types 
"The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are." - Introduction to The Defendant 
"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." - A Short History of England, Ch.10 
"All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing." - "On Gargoyles." Alarms and Discursions 
"The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man." - ILN 2-10-06 
"We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera." - The Quotable Chesterton 
"When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any." - ILN 11-7-08 
"The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." - Broadcast talk 6-11-35 
"Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told." - "The Love of Lead" Lunacy and Letters 
"The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce." - ILN,12/25/09 
"The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right." - ILN 10-28-22 
"Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it." - "Charles II" Twelve Types 
