366 ordspråk av 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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 And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn |
| When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why |
| Such as do build their faith upon, The holy text of pike and gun |
| In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. |
| A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. |
| Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. |
| What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, "I bet that my Redeemer liveth." |
| For he by geometric scale / Could take the size of pots of ale. |
| He could distinguish, and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. / On either which he would dispute, / Confute, change hands, and still confute. |
| The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. |
| We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. |
| Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. |
| Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it. |
| Cleric before, and Lay behind; / A lawless linsy-woolsy brother, / Half of one order, half another. |
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