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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 Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. |
| I am not in Fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower |
| I am the enfant terrible of literature and science |
| I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry. |
| I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other - I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so. |
| I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. |
| 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. |
| I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better |
| I'll make the fur / Fly round the ears of the old cur. |
| I've known him for a long time, ... He's always been a man of integrity, always been a man of the community and the needs of the community, and the black community is going to stand behind him. |
| If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes |
| 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. |
| If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. |
| If old Pontifex had had Cromwell's chances he would have done all that Cromwell did, and have done it better; if he had had Giotto's chances he would have done all that Giotto did, and done it no worse; as it was, he was a village carpenter, and I wi |
| If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. |
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