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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 For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure /tangible material prosperity in this world /is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism. |
| For things said false and never meant, Do oft prove true by accident |
| For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain |
| For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. |
| For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell. |
| For what is worth in anything, But so much money as 'twill bring |
| Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. |
| From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. |
| Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. |
| Genius is a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble. |
| Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. |
| God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians |
| God cannot alter the past, though historians can. |
| God is Love - I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is! |
| God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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