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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For things said false and never meant, Do oft prove true by accident

For justice, though she's painted blind, Is to the weaker side inclined

I am not in Fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower

For 'tis in vain to think or guess, At women by appearances

For what is worth in anything, But so much money as 'twill bring

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

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence

It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg

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

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and seeing it practiced

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation

For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit

He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysics wit can fly

God": The word that comes after "go-cart

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