Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
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All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
SAMUEL BUTLER For though to smatter ends of Greek
Or Latin be the rhetoric
Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) They're tired of one-point losses. They were in the weight room all year long getting ready. I think...
JEFF TRACY One may go a long way after one is tired.
PROVERB One may go a long way after one is tired
FRENCH PROVERB Life is a Learning Process, Learning is a Life-Long Process; You can't separate them.
VIVIENNE FORRESTER One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something...
EUGENE H. PETERSON I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getti...
TAYLOR SWIFT I'm simpley one hell of a butler.
SEBASTIAN MICHEALIS Learning is a life-long process, from birth to death.
ROXE And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
BIBLE I'm getting tired, real tired.
BILL SWANSON Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the fooli...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA It's been a long hard process getting this CD together. I'm really proud of the album. It's hot.
PARIS HILTON This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford
SAMUEL JOHNSON When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
SAMUEL JOHNSON When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can af...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I said I would never self publish, but then I realized getting a traditional publisher or agent is a...
LAURA EVANS The art is long, life is short.
HIPPOCRATES This is grueling for the firefighters. We're getting tired.
JIM PAXON Recovery is a long process. There can be four, five or more relapses before an addict gets clean. Pa...
DAVID GORDON They just got tired of it, I guess, ... Tired of the hassle that is going on and all the fighting, a...
GARY WOOD Both of us knew that winning the first set was the key to the whole match because we were both getti...
ELENA DEMENTIEVA 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 Life is one long jubilee.
IRA GERSHWIN [Butler] is one of the great black Republicans. It's nice to have a person of that stature to look u...
DEREK MOSS I'm getting tired of the 25 percent rule. It's deflating.
JOHN TORTORELLA They are getting really tired of the one note that came out of the Bush administration for so many y...
EDWARD LINCOLN These players are getting tired later in the game, and the lack of good defensive skills that come w...
BRYAN KEMNETZ They're doing basically a facelift. The existing project definitely was getting tired and dated and ...
PAUL PUGLIESE I played 25 minutes and 35 minutes in two games. I shouldn't be tired. I'm tired of getting scored o...
MARTIN BRODEUR My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
PIERRE TRUDEAU My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it...
OSCAR WILDE So the butler is safe?
DANNY SULLIVAN This is a year-long process of self study.
GWEN COTE Life is short, the art long.
HIPPOCRATES Time is long but life is short.
STEVIE WONDER I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
KNUTE ROCKNE No one wants a disruptive situation on his roster. There is too much at stake. Without naming names,...
MIKE HOLMGREN Getting over divorce is a process made up of many different aspects.
DONNA FERBER I think that's what makes life interesting-the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinatin...
ALEXIS BLEDEL I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.
MICHAEL REAGAN Secret of long life;Never plan to abandon life giving activities while alive.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The secret of long life is by learning the art of meditation,it aids the renewal of the human flesh.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Secret of long life;Desire to compete with tomorrow,by always endeavoring to witness tomorrow.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.
KAREN M. MCMANUS Samuel McDermott or not, I was Ian McDermott, and the way I saw life was the way I'd live life.
MICHAEL HARMON Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
HENRY MILLER Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement
HENRY MILLER All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.
CARL R WHITE I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.
TOM FELTON On the day of victory no one is tired
ARAB PROVERB Is "tired old cliche" one?
ROD SCHMIDT The adoption process is a long process. Right now we have five children going through the process.
BEVERLY HOWARD I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people.
ELIZABETH PETERS An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, i...
TERRY PRATCHETT Life is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUS No one is happy all his life long.
EURIPIDES What Janet Reno has to consider is, 'Do I go through this long process with the odds against getting...
LAURIE LEVENSON 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou...
BEN SHAPIRO You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired o...
SAMUEL JOHNSON This is the first step in a long process of restoration.
BOB CARLSON Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.
WASIF ALI WASIF I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in ...
JIM CARTER I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."
She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm...
TAMORA PIERCE What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal,...
SIMON BEAUFOY Part of the process of getting what you want is learning what you don't want.
JIM GENOVESE Life is a lively process of becoming.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Life is a constant process of dying.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getti...
ANDY ROONEY If you are tired of getting the wrong answers, start asking the right questions!
TRAVIS J HEDRICK Celebration of life should never be left for celebrities alone,but as long as one is alive,one ought...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Romanes eunt domus
LIFE OF BRIAN Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.
BRETT ELDREDGE To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH (Davis and Butler) are getting stronger game by game. They're bringing their experience onto the flo...
ANN TALBERT These guys are getting interviewed early, obviously we're on them earlier. I think they get tired of...
DAVID BLACKWELL If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Wisdom from Top Butler: Guard yourself at all times but don't let anyone lead you to live a guarded ...
DONAVAN NELSON BUTLER, MASTER SERGEANT US ARMY When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story.
SHAWN LUKAS Getting a second life is one thing. Making a better life, that's the trick.
RICK RIORDAN The law of cause and effect gets clear to you, when you realize the eternal truth within you. The fa...
ROSHAN SHARMA There becomes a point in time you can only use that excuse for so long. We are getting very sick and...
JASON DONALD I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mort...
JOHN CIARDI The usability of that lower level is a huge benefit of the new Butler.
JON HLAFTER I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.
LILITH SAINTCROW Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Life is an endless process of self-discovery.
JAMES GARDNER To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to thr...
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL I know in the past, my teams would get upset about losing, but this team is really getting tired of ...
KATHY BOCOCK One of the greatest keys to getting what you want in life is to ask for it.
JANINE LATTIMORE In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
ALVIN AILEY Creating a SID is a long and complex process, and the most difficult step is getting super-majority ...
DAVID HULL Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a ...
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