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People Quotes by Samuel Butler
- If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before…
- Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
- Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
- A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school…
- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
- People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have…
- Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
- If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
- My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
- The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
- In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
- People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
- People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
- Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to…
- Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
- People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
- We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
- We think as we do, mainly because other people think so
- People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
- A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man from…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle