"Oaths are but words, and words but wind." — Samuel Butler
"Oaths are but words, and words but wind."
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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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More Broken Promises Quotes
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
— Hannah Arendt
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
— Abigail Adams
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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
— Henry Adams
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
— Bernard Baruch
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
— Buffalo Bill
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
— Warren Buffett
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
— John Burroughs
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
— Albert Camus
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