Commonplace Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image “Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commonplace Men Occasions Supreme
Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
