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Who Quotes by Samuel Butler
- 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…
- The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
- It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
- Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
- 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…
- Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
- I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
- The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is…
- It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
- Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle