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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Have always been at daggers-drawing, / And one another clapper-clawing.

He is a poor creature who does not believe himself to be better than the whole world else; no matter how ill we may be, nor how low we have fallen, we should not change identity with any other person.

When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

God is Love - I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

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