If ain't broke, don't fix it.


Dick Butler

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If it ain't broke don't fix it
PROVERB
you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Our theory is if it's not broke, don't fix it.
MARC DANLEY
You know the old adage. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
MIKE TICE
Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't b...
SCOTT ADAMS
If it ain't broke, you know, why are they trying to fix it?
BARBARA ORMEROD
The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
JOSH BILLINGS
We've got one more goal. We'll focus on that. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
ERIC OSMER
You can't put a price on a life. If it's not broke, don't fix it.
GARY YOUNG
They say if it ain't broke, don't fix it...well, if it could be better, it's as good as broken
GREG PLITT
Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ...
SCOTT ADAMS
why do you have to fix the salad? who broke it? i didn't touch it. did you break the salad, mom? if ...
DAVID LEVITHAN
You don't fix what ain't broke.
DOUG EDWARDS
You broke her heart in person—you fix it in person!
R.J. GONZALES
I broke a trophy. I've got to see if the trophy people can fix this.
AMY GREEN
If it isn't broke, don't fix it. You want to prepare the same. ... I haven't seen any added pressure...
BRANDON MACNAUGHT
Life, its so great, but when we act like shit and do shit, then it aint. Why should we act like that...
TUPAC SHAKUR
What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's...
OCTAVIA SPENCER
If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's a...
COLIN POWELL
So aint you think just causen you in this car now means any damn thing. It aint. He pretending it do...
STACIA KANE
Whether or not we want to take something not broke and want to fix it, I think we should continue di...
MYLES BRAND
There's a lot of things wrong here and there's a lot of things broke and we couldn't fix it if we st...
ALVA MARTIN
Well, Son, I tell you, life for me aint been no crystal stair.
Its been hard and bare and rough p...
LANGSTON HUGHES
Hoes always on a nigga dick when he got money but when a nigga broke a nigga ain't shit.
RUPAM DAS
Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER
We did intend, initially, to throw a little more. But [the offensive line] played so well, we decide...
ARRINGTON JONES
You took my heart and broke it once more. And you know the saddest part of it all, I've gotten soo u...
NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN
people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ
Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
 DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR
If it doesnt help, I damned sure dont know what will.
JACK MOORE
Be scared. You cant help that. But dont be afraid. Aint nothing in the woods going to hurt you unles...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
[Butler jubilantly climbed the fence to a standing ovation following the victory for the youngster i...
BOBBY BUTLER
If this doesn't fix it, nothing will.
LUKE SERPA
dont be hard on yourself for doing something wrong, be hard on yourself when you question your faith...
BAILEY CHANDRA
I dont want to be broke down I want to be built up and vice versa I dont want to break down but buil...
HEATHER MONTANO
Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to he...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Stop staring at my dick," he growled.

Oh, yes it was definitely an illusion. "Barrons lov...
KAREN MARIE MONING
Car service: If it ain't broke, we'll break it.
ANONYMOUS
We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON
Love is a stranger and dont Live here,, and it dont even Visit
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG)
If you can't fix it, Jack, you gotta stand it.
ENNIS DEL MAR
Eat cheese and do a u-turn but if you dont like cheese dont eat cheese and do a u-turn
KATIE BAVISTER
If I knew why that was, I'd fix it,
LUCAS GLOVER
Failure is not the final fall.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
It wasn't my goal to come in here and turn everything around because they have had some success. Wit...
JOE ALBERICI
If it ain't broke I haven't worked on it yet.
KRIS HUEN
Please, if you would," the butler said, "no throwing the linens. Peaches, anyone?" -Fritz
J.R. WARD
...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI
Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happe...
INDIA KNIGHT
This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If you can feel the air, you can fix it,
DAVID MEREDITH
So if we don't fix it, it could be a long night,
LEONARD LITTLE
If looks could kill...well, Dick was already dead, so nothing would happen. But Gabriel was not laug...
MOLLY HARPER
If you dont understand the MOTIVE, don't judge the means!
STEPHEN MAGNUS
If you dont stand for something you fall for everything.
MALCOLM X
If ain't broke, let ME take a crack at it!
DON ZEIGLER
I dont care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
JOSH BILLINGS
set your goals in life because if u dont then it seems like a wild goose chase..
RAHUL.V.BHOLE
If you can't fix what went wrong, then fix what you can make right.
BRIGID KEMMERER
Harry and the Butler
ANTHONY HOPKINS
If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER
I dont know if anybody knows how to recover from this,
BOB ISRAEL
If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light
LADY GAGA
if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
He thinks he can fix anything. And if he can't fix it, he can at least do something with the pieces ...
SARAH DESSEN
If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.
ROB KARDASHIAN
If I had just done Dayton and (Butler and Warren) counties, we would be profitable by now.
TOM PEEBLES
When handling a customers complaint, remember: If you can't fix it, don't drop it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
If you don't know how it works, you shouldn't assume you can fix it.
ELLA MENTALIE
Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN
If we dont error then how are we gonna know what needs to be repaired.If we dont get angry then how ...
MICHAEL STRONG
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fi...
ROB REINER
We played pretty good for three quarters, but we kind of broke down in the fourth. (South Pasadena) ...
DERRICK DELTON
If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF
So the butler is safe?
DANNY SULLIVAN
Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Dont be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone,it doesn't matter...
GUNDO MULAUDZI
Quilty grimaces. “I don’t like what comes after ‘dicker.’ ” “What is that?” Quilty sig...
LORRIE MOORE
It would be tragic, if not senseless, if an unnecessary war broke out over these differences.
RICHARD HOLBROOKE
I feel sorry for his family. I feel sorry for our family. What he did is unspeakable. There's no way...
LINDA CHILES
He would have no motive whatsoever to set a fire. Mark may be the obvious culprit, as in 'the butler...
DOUGLAS RAPPAPORT
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fi...
ROB REINER
DONT SAY ELECTION IT IS ILL-ACTION.
PANDIT MUSTAFA ARIF
dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i...
ANON QUOTER
We started enforcing it as MLL policy this year. It came about to allow for safety of officials and ...
DICK BUTLER
They have hosted some for the Forsyth Seniors, so that will be something new for the players.
DICK BUTLER
We already have a sponsor for the match-play tournament. And that's something we are excited about.
DICK BUTLER
We would love to have 64 players in the field. It's a unique format, because it's all match play. It...
DICK BUTLER
It's probably the best tournament around for anyone 17 and under. You get the three rounds, a cookou...
DICK BUTLER
If you dont get what you want,you wont want what you get.
KENNETH ELLIOTT HUDSON
It does not matter if u dont sleep often, what matters most is knowing how to use your time precisel...
BILAL ELKHATIB
I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, ...
MARGARET MITCHELL
It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.
EOIN COLFER
It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recogni...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
I would love a robot butler.
BRETT RATNER
It kind of broke the ice if you wanted to have a relationship.
ELLEN LIMAN
My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish.
ROSS BUTLER
Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team
EOIN COLFER
That was probably the best and worst weekend of the year. We broke ground and then Dick had his stro...
GARY WHEELER
If you understand mechanistically how something works, then you will know how best to fix it. It's l...
ERIC KNUDSEN

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We started enforcing it as MLL policy this year. It came about to allow for safety of officials and ...
DICK BUTLER
They have hosted some for the Forsyth Seniors, so that will be something new for the players.
DICK BUTLER
We already have a sponsor for the match-play tournament. And that's something we are excited about.
DICK BUTLER
We would love to have 64 players in the field. It's a unique format, because it's all match play. It...
DICK BUTLER
It's probably the best tournament around for anyone 17 and under. You get the three rounds, a cookou...
DICK BUTLER
When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'Peo...
GERARD BUTLER
Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentab...
JUDITH BUTLER
I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
YANCY BUTLER
I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
YANCY BUTLER
I'll try anything once.
YANCY BUTLER
I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I&#...
YANCY BUTLER
I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of t...
YANCY BUTLER
I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
YANCY BUTLER
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him...
YANCY BUTLER
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega,...
YANCY BUTLER
Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
YANCY BUTLER
To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
YANCY BUTLER
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from t...
YANCY BUTLER
A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
YANCY BUTLER
Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
YANCY BUTLER
I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
YANCY BUTLER
I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
YANCY BUTLER
I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
YANCY BUTLER
Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
YANCY BUTLER
I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
YANCY BUTLER
My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
YANCY BUTLER
Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
YANCY BUTLER
People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
YANCY BUTLER
Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are tell...
YANCY BUTLER
My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
YANCY BUTLER
I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
YANCY BUTLER
I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
YANCY BUTLER
I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don'...
JUDITH BUTLER
We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or somethi...
JUDITH BUTLER
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good st...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to di...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We c...
JUDITH BUTLER
Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
FRANK BUTLER
I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put...
GERARD BUTLER
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. ...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
OCTAVIA BUTLER
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there'...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if y...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilitie...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - eve...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's ot...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done an...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your ow...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
OCTAVIA BUTLER
While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote th...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think ...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
OCTAVIA BUTLER
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some h...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comforta...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops ...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everyb...
GEEZER BUTLER
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brou...
SMEDLEY BUTLER
Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate represent...
JUDITH BUTLER
I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
WIN BUTLER
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anyth...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. ...
JUDITH BUTLER
I'm not big on the closet.
DAN BUTLER
I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
DAN BUTLER
There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so r...
DAN BUTLER
Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
DAN BUTLER
I'm an actor.
DAN BUTLER
Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs...
DAN BUTLER
I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control o...
DAN BUTLER
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...
SAMUEL BUTLER
I went to the Bach Choir concert and heard Mozart's Requiem. I did not rise warmly to it. Then I hea...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of r...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The money men make lives after them.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The want of money is the root of all evil.
SAMUEL BUTLER
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to r...
SAMUEL BUTLER
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
SAMUEL BUTLER
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER
Life is one long process of getting tired.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalid...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...
SAMUEL BUTLER
When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
SAMUEL BUTLER
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will...
SAMUEL BUTLER
There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
SAMUEL BUTLER
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging h...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the...
SAMUEL BUTLER
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
SAMUEL BUTLER
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer l...
SAMUEL BUTLER
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be b...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
SAMUEL BUTLER
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wa...
SAMUEL BUTLER
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. A...
SAMUEL BUTLER
There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every...
SAMUEL BUTLER
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more s...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life, they urge, would be intolerable if men were to be guided in all they did by reason and reason ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
SAMUEL BUTLER
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
SAMUEL BUTLER
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through eithe...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religi...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to ap...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it b...
SAMUEL BUTLER
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fightin...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Logic is like the sword
SAMUEL BUTLER
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond it...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he pro...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
SAMUEL BUTLER
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A hen is only a egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER
To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obl...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he no...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is a...
SAMUEL BUTLER
God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and pro...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as h...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men t...
SAMUEL BUTLER
For every why he had a wherefore.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
SAMUEL BUTLER
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole stor...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
SAMUEL BUTLER
An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when intr...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the othe...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has s...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came f...
SAMUEL BUTLER
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
SAMUEL BUTLER
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not se...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER
To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER
Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER
We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER