"No mistake is more common and more fatuous……" — Samuel Butler
"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
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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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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient…
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A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen…
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I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I…
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It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns…
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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is…
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We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever…
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This…
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I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what…
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on…
— Maya Angelou
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic,…
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