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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 When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. |
| When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why |
| When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. |
| When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once |
| When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. |
| While to deny the existence of an unseen kingdom is bad, to pretend that we know more about it than its bare existence is no better |
| Why should not Conscience have a vacation |
| With what's going on right now, we all need to stand behind this man, ... We need to let them know it's wrong and we know it's wrong. |
| Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use |
| Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. |
| Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others. |
| You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. |  Du kan göra mycket litet med tro, men du kan inte göra någonting utan den. |
| Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way - who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with |
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Proverb (1469561 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengths
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.
Det är julafton om 247 dagar!
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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.
Det är julafton om 247 dagar!
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