Cold Quote by Samuel Butler

“Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.”

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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

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

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Spare the rod and spoil the child.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to…

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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

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“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed…

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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

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Of course Messi could handle a cold Tuesday night in Stoke. He'd be drinking tea and relaxing beforehand. Me? I'd probably be the same.

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This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax…

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When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there…

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You start playing when it's cold and you want to be playing when it's cold again.

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It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him…

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I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even…

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What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

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When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'

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