366 ordspråk av Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler föddes den 8 Dezember 1835 och dog den 18 Juni 1902 - engelsk poet och satiriker.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Vennskap

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

Instinkt

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Kunnskap

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Gud

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

The want of money is the root of all evil.

Ondskap

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.

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending

Glede

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Youth is like spring, an overpraised season

Ungdom

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