Best Samuel Butler Quotes: The most famous quotes by Samuel Butler
Loyalty is still the same,Whether it win or lose the gameTrue as a dial to the sun,Although it be not shined upon. — Samuel Butler
Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler
To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. — Samuel Butler
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. — Samuel Butler
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. — Samuel Butler
For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. — Samuel Butler
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. — Samuel Butler
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. — Samuel Butler
God is Love — I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is — Samuel Butler
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. — Samuel Butler
God cannot alter the past, but historians can. — Samuel Butler
What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov’d true before Prove false again Two hundred more. — Samuel Butler
The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places. — Samuel Butler
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy. — Samuel Butler
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. — Samuel Butler
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. — Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler
A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg. — Samuel Butler
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies. — Samuel Butler
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. — Samuel Butler
He that is down can fall no lower. — Samuel Butler
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. — Samuel Butler
Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth. — Samuel Butler
The course of true anything does not run smooth. — Samuel Butler
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. — Samuel Butler
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. — Samuel Butler
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule. — Samuel Butler
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. — Samuel Butler
An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books. — Samuel Butler
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. — Samuel Butler
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. — Samuel Butler
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. — Samuel Butler
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. — Samuel Butler
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. — Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. — Samuel Butler
Best Herbert Butterfield Quotes: The most famous quotes by Herbert Butterfield
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness — each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked — each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. — Herbert Butterfield
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance … produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward … allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process. — Herbert Butterfield
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route. — Herbert Butterfield
Best Eric Butterworth Quotes: The most famous quotes by Eric Butterworth
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. — Eric Butterworth
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. — Eric Butterworth
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. — Eric Butterworth
Dont go through life, GROW through life. — Eric Butterworth
Best Red Buttons Quotes: The most famous quotes by Red Buttons
He’s a real loser. He moved into a new neighborhood and got run over by the Welcome Wagon. — Red Buttons
Best Charles Buxton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Charles Buxton
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. — Charles Buxton
Best Charles Roberts Buxton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Charles Roberts Buxton
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. — Charles Roberts Buxton
In life, as in chess, forethought wins. — Charles Roberts Buxton
Best Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy – invincible determination–a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. — Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
Best Don Byas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Don Byas
You call it madness, but I call it love. — Don Byas
Best Richard Evelyn Byrd Quotes: The most famous quotes by Richard Evelyn Byrd
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. — Richard Evelyn Byrd
Best Robert C. Byrd Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert C. Byrd
One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family. — Robert C. Byrd
Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone…I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill — Robert C. Byrd
Best Robert Byrne Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert Byrne
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. — Robert Byrne
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. — Robert Byrne
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. — Robert Byrne
Partying is such sweet sorrow. — Robert Byrne
Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. — Robert Byrne
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. — Robert Byrne
Until you walk a mile in another man’s moccasins you can’t imagine the smell. — Robert Byrne
Getting caught is the mother of invention. — Robert Byrne
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. — Robert Byrne
Best James F. Byrnes Quotes: The most famous quotes by James F. Byrnes
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. — James F. Byrnes
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. — James F. Byrnes
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. — James F. Byrnes
Best George Gordon Byron Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Gordon Byron
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. — George Gordon Byron
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass’dAnd the eyes of the sleepers wax’d deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still — George Gordon Byron
Adversity is the first path to truth. — George Gordon Byron
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. — George Gordon Byron
They never fail who die in a great cause. — George Gordon Byron
‘Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print. A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in ‘t. — George Gordon Byron
For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn — George Gordon Byron
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ‘Carpe Diem’ is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow — George Gordon Byron
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. — George Gordon Byron
There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. — George Gordon Byron
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. — George Gordon Byron
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure. — George Gordon Byron
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more. — George Gordon Byron
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five — George Gordon Byron
And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. — George Gordon Byron
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly — George Gordon Byron
Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. — George Gordon Byron
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. — George Gordon Byron
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. — George Gordon Byron
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, – and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, – thou livest forever — George Gordon Byron
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire. — George Gordon Byron
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. — George Gordon Byron
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem-and in my esteem age is not estimable. — George Gordon Byron
Cervantes smiled Spain’s chivalry away A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. — George Gordon Byron
Best Lord Byron Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lord Byron
Oh too convincing – dangerously dear – In woman’s eye the unanswerable tear — Lord Byron
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. — Lord Byron
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. — Lord Byron
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest. — Lord Byron
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this. — Lord Byron
Best James Branch Cabell Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Branch Cabell
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. — James Branch Cabell
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true. — James Branch Cabell
Best Meg Cabot Quotes: The most famous quotes by Meg Cabot
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It’s true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt. — Meg Cabot
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one’s back. — Meg Cabot
Best Eileen Caddy Quotes: The most famous quotes by Eileen Caddy
Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. — Eileen Caddy
Best CaddyShack Quotes: The most famous quotes by CaddyShack
Carl Spackler IT’S IN THE HOLE. — CaddyShack
Spalding Smails This is good stuff. I got it from a Negro. You’re probably high already and you don’t even know it. — CaddyShack
Sandy Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course Carl Spackler Correct me if I’m wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they’ll lock me up and throw away the key. Sandy Not golfers, you great fool. Gophers. THE LITTLE BROWN, FURRY RODENTS. Carl Spackler We can do that. We don’t even need a reason. — CaddyShack
Al Czervik Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it. — CaddyShack
Danny Noonan I haven’t even told my father I’m not gonna get that scholarship. I’m gonna end up working in a lumberyard the rest of my life. Ty Webb What’s wrong with lumber I own two lumberyards. Danny Noonan I notice you don’t spend too much time there. Ty Webb I’m not quite sure where they are. — CaddyShack
Al Czervik Hey everybody, we’re all gonna get laid. — CaddyShack
Judge Smails It’s easy to grin When your ship comes in And you’ve got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile, Is the man who can smile, When his shorts are too tight in the seat. — CaddyShack
Best Herb Caen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Herb Caen
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. — Herb Caen
There are more of them than us. — Herb Caen
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. — Herb Caen
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. — Herb Caen
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. — Herb Caen
Best Gaius Julius Caesar Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gaius Julius Caesar
Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. (All Gaul is divided into three parts) — Gaius Julius Caesar
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. — Gaius Julius Caesar
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) — Gaius Julius Caesar
Men willingly believe what they wish. — Gaius Julius Caesar
The die is cast. — Gaius Julius Caesar
Best Julius Caesar Quotes: The most famous quotes by Julius Caesar
Men willingly believe what they wish. — Julius Caesar
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. — Julius Caesar
Veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered — Julius Caesar
Et tu, Brute. You also, Brutus. — Julius Caesar
Best Nero Claudius Caesar Quotes: The most famous quotes by Nero Claudius Caesar
What an artist the world is losing in me — Nero Claudius Caesar
Best John Cage Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Cage
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. — John Cage
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. — John Cage
The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. — John Cage
Best James M. Cain Quotes: The most famous quotes by James M. Cain
The postman always rings twice. — James M. Cain
Best Mark Caine Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mark Caine
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. — Mark Caine
Best Michael Caine Quotes: The most famous quotes by Michael Caine
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. — Michael Caine
Best Mary S. Calderone Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mary S. Calderone
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. — Mary S. Calderone
Best Mary Steichen Calderone Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mary Steichen Calderone
Our children are not going to be just our children-they are going to be other people’s husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren. — Mary Steichen Calderone
Best Jean Caldwell Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jean Caldwell
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority. — Jean Caldwell
Best Philip Caldwell Quotes: The most famous quotes by Philip Caldwell
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. — Philip Caldwell
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