287 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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 Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. |
| People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. |
| People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. |
| People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. |
| People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and seeing it practiced |
| Pleasure after all is a safer guide than either right or duty |
| Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last |
| Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate |
| Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal. |
| Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance. |
| Self-preservation is the first law of nature. |
| Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence |
| Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. |
| Some who had received a liberal education at the Colleges of Unreason, and taken the highest degrees in hypothetics, which are their principal study |
| Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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