WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:03:29 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg nursery rhymes – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Chesterton, Gilbert Keith -- Essay (1921-10-15), “Child Psychology and Nonsense,” closing words, Illustrated London News, “Our Notebook” column https://wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-keith/5681/ https://wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-keith/5681/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:02:10 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=5681 For there are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.


Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
Essay (1921-10-15), “Child Psychology and Nonsense,” closing words, Illustrated London News, “Our Notebook” column
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Collected in Vol. 32 of his Collected Works. See also The Society of G. K. Chesterton. ]]> https://wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-keith/5681/feed/ 2 5681