287 ordspråk av Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler föddes den December 8th 1835 och dog den 18 June 1902 - English writer
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 'Twas Presbyterian true blue. |
| A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide |
| A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. |
| A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. |
| A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. |
| A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers |
| A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. |
| A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. |
| A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore |
| A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. |
| 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. |
| A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. |
| A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. |
| Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime |
| All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. |
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