"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win……" — Samuel Butler
"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."
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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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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
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Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means…
— Mary J. Blige
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
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Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't dial…
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I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.
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The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate,…
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I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number…
— Hendrik Tennekes
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In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights…
— Charles Dickens
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My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a…
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TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like…
— John C. McGinley
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At my hotel room, my friend came over and asked to use the phone. I said Certainly. He said Do…
— Mitch Hedberg
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place…
— Plautus
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