"One of the first businesses of a sensible……" — Samuel Butler
"One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once."
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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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There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their…
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think…
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
— John Burroughs
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If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
— George Carlin
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I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried…
— Stokely Carmichael
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I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women…
— Noam Chomsky
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Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of…
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They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages.…
— Barney Frank
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You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.…
— Bruce Lee
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The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the…
— Nicholas Culpeper
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