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.
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For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
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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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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
SAMUEL BUTLER
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t...
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I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and th...
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a tr...
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Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in th...
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
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For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an...
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
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To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
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People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
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Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
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Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last
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