366 ordspråk av Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler föddes den 8 december 1835 och dog den 18 juni 1902 - engelsk poet och satiriker.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most.

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.

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.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

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.

Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organized and more naturally cohesive inter se. So the arctic volcano can do nothing against arctic ice.

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