He who weds the spirit of the times quickly becomes a widower. Author: G.K. Chesterton Copy Quote More from G.K. Chesterton “Until we realize that things might not be, we cannot realize that things are. U…” “He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But h…” “It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man w…” “And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he ga…”