366 ordspråk av Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler föddes den 8 december 1835 och dog den 18 juni 1902 - English writer
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 Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine, a bit of unscheduled plea

 Still amorous, and fond, and billing, / Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

 Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room / The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; / Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, / Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth: / O God! O Montreal!

 Such as do build their faith upon, The holy text of pike and gun

 Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

 Taking numbers into account, I should think more mental suffering had been undergone in the streets leading from St George's, Hanover Square, than in the condemned cells of Newgate

 That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious; we call it hypocrisy

 The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

 The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places

 The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

 The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

 The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

 The body is but a pair of pincers set over bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts

 The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

 The course of true anything never does run smooth


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