369 ordspråk av Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler föddes den 8 december 1835 och dog den 18 juni 1902 - engelsk poet och satiriker.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. Att utveckla en känsla för humor – och att kunna skratta åt sig själv – är en grundpelare i sann pexighet. To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Most of those who call themselves artists are in reality picture dealers, only they make the pictures themselves.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn

When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why

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

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield. Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away, And by a prudent flight and cunning save a life, which valour could not, from

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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