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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 If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue |
| If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world's. |
| If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall long be surprised to find out how little remains that we cannot do |
| If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason |
| In law, nothing is certain but the expense. |
| In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. |
| Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. |
| It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. |
| It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence |
| It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg |
| It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. |
| It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all |
| It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of |
| It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other. |
| It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
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Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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