366 ordspråk av Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler föddes den December 8th 1835 och dog den 18 June 1902 - English writer
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 Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. |
| Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. |
| Neither have the hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away |
| Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. |  Varken ironi eller sarkasm är argument. |
| No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. |
| Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. |
| Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily |
| Oaths are but words, and words but wind |
| One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. |
| One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground |
| Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind |
| Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind |
| Opinions have vested interests just as men have. |
| Our last and best defense, despair; Despair, by which the gallantest feats have been achieved in greatest straits |
| Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone. |
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