Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.


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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