"Nobody shoots at Santa Claus." — Samuel Butler
"Nobody shoots at Santa Claus."
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Samuel Butler
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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler
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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 have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about…
— Karen Armstrong
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
— Victor Borge
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I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the…
— Julie Burchill
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He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and…
— Jimmy Cannon
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Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy…
— W.C. Fields
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa…
— Bobby Knight
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A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
— William Feather
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God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.
— H. L. Mencken
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If you ever have to steal money from your kid, and later on he discovers it's gone, I think a…
— Jack Handey
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No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa…
— Al Smith
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One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was…
— Dennis Franz
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Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few…
— Robert E. Lee
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