15 March 2011

Rules

They nibble at it with negative criticism; they chip pieces off it and exhibit them as specimens, called "hard cases"; they treat every example of the rule as an exception to the rule, but they never look at the rule.

G.K. Chesterton, "Marriage and the Modern Mind," Brave New Family

3 comments:

MooreMama said...

I love that the tag on this post is "smartness". :D

Leah said...

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. John 3:19

There are just certain things that are not to be tolerated in this world!!!

Reb. Mary said...

This is so, very, and most certainly true.