"Letters are like wine; if they are sound……" — Samuel Butler
"Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine."
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Samuel Butler
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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler has 228 quotes on this site.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to…
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he…
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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of…
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of…
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A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.
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A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he…
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I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.
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The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of…
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not…
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy,…
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man…
— C.S. Lewis
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
— Van Wyck Brooks
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I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every…
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