This is the last straw.
Wayne Butler
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This has been coming for a few months and last night was the final straw.
CHRIS WADDLE
That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON It's usually the last straw for families caring for an elderly person.
ANIELA ORR Everything has gone against Oracle. This is almost the final straw.
DAVID HILAL I can't even
SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT BT is just the last straw to the network and it is a good excuse for telecom operators to avoid thei...
ALAN WANG There is reason to believe that her death was a setback for his health. It was probably the last str...
HANS KNOETZE
It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE For them this is a final straw, the final symbol of Soviet greatness.
STEVE HARRIGAN So the butler is safe?
DANNY SULLIVAN I think when he lost his girlfriend that that was the last straw for him. She was his everything.
WILLIE SMITH
Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL
Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN
Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, li...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH
It was just the last straw for me. They are a multi-platinum band. What's the point of going after u...
PETE WENTZ
Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
MARGARET MITCHELL To us that was the last straw and we started attending City Council meetings asking the officials an...
DAVID HERNANDEZ
Oh my God Becky! Look at her butt! Tunechi
LIL WAYNE
The first thought is often the best.
- Bishop Joseph Butler,
BISHOP JOSEPH BUTLER
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Harry and the Butler
ANTHONY HOPKINS An event like this can be the proverbial straw that breaks the market's back.
JEFFREY HIRSCH Eugene wouldn't let the game end without getting one. He wanted to be the last straw that broke thei...
MIKE MANNINO The response to our convenient first-flight-out, last-flight-back schedule from John Wayne Airport t...
THOM NULTY Wayne is a great player,
DIEGO FORLAN Wayne Rooney is top drawer.
SAM ALLARDYCE
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy st...
JOEY COMEAU It's the straw that broke the camel's back for some of them. If you're somebody who was already down...
JOEY RODRIGUEZ This building is kind of fun because Fort Wayne doesn't have a lot of mission-revival buildings.
ANGIE QUINN There is a lot of crossover crime in this area, where you have people who live in Wayne that commit ...
LAWRENCE MEYER The last straw didn’t break the camel’s back. The camel allowed his back to be broken by not shr...
DAN WALDSCHMIDT
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 think all of the airlines will feel this (and) ... $70 a barrel oil is the straw that would break ...
TERRY TRIPPLER Curtis played against Wayne. He's intrigued and very excited about this chance.
DON MEEHAN There's obviously been a variety of issues swirling around the banks and the big broker dealers, and...
DIANE GLOSSMAN
When Wayne said it, a collective gasp kind of went around the room. That was a last-minute addition ...
BOB MCNAIR The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
MINORU YAMASAKI This is the same exact system that Beaver, Butler and Westmoreland use. It puts Allegheny County on ...
KEVIN EVANTO You can't make bricks without straw
PROVERB Coach (Todd) Butler played a lot of sophomores two years ago and a lot of juniors last year. Now the...
BILL EVANS The usability of that lower level is a huge benefit of the new Butler.
JON HLAFTER It's like Wayne said on the conference call this morning, Sid could be the captain of this team in 2...
KEVIN LOWE
Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli...
MARGARET MITCHELL We were down to our last straw several times. All second half, we had opportunities to lay down and ...
CHIP HESTER
A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away ...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer'...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB This is a tremendous boost for hockey. This game needs people like Wayne Gretzky to step forward and...
BARRY SMITH
I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase o...
MICHAEL DAVIS
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's the straw that broke the camel's back, if the camel's back is broken.
ELLEN TAYLOR I would love a robot butler.
BRETT RATNER Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
BILLY WEST
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
GEORGE HERBERT My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.
ADAM PETTY
The real mechanism is what this will do to the dollar. It may be the straw that breaks the camel's b...
PAUL WALKER
Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
La vida era como una canción.
En el comienzo, hay misterio, al final, hay una confirmación, ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
شعر آخر
می توانم امشب غمناک ترین سطرها را بنویسم PABLO NERUDA
A joy as intense as pain
NICHOLAS SPARKS
This team, it all flows from me. I've got to keep it going. I'm the straw that stirs the drink.
REGGIE JACKSON The business model has always been -- for Wayne Sr. and Wayne Jr. -- opportunities that can later de...
ALEX MUXO Naturally, Wayne and I were miffed. We'd been setting ourselves for this match for weeks,
TODD WOODBRIDGE My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish.
ROSS BUTLER
could make a difference in the straw poll, there's no doubt about it. This is almost like the old Da...
DAN QUAYLE I'm simpley one hell of a butler.
SEBASTIAN MICHEALIS
I'm going to stay in the race. I really can't believe that any campaign, or should I say any candida...
DAN QUAYLE And this team is not going to quit. We're going to come back next week (at Southern Wayne) and be 3-...
BRIAN FOSTER That's special for me, of course. I scored in overtime in Wayne Gretzky's last game here and I score...
JAROMIR JAGR He scored a hat-trick for the reserves last week and his attitude showed me he wanted to play in the...
DAVE ANDERSON She told me the [Butler School] had been torn down.
LARRY MELMAN I made a decision on faith that Wayne County was going to get this in place.
FRED OWEN It was the straw that broke the camel's back.
BILL HUTCHINSON that John Wayne dude.
THE ARCHIVES
Straw met camel's back. Breaking commenced.
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES
In a long journey straw waighs.
GEORGE HERBERT
Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l...
DEYTH BANGER Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE
All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
SAMUEL BUTLER It was the final straw for a lot of voters.
DIETMAR HERZ It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back
PROVERB
It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
GEORGE HERBERT It's a good straw in the wind for Christmas.
JULIAN HEWETT What an event like this in any community accomplishes is bringing people together for goodness,'' sa...
CARON BUTLER
This is the strangest life I have ever known.
JIM MORRISON Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.
MERV GRIFFIN
Our Velma Kelly is Jill Kelly - no relation - of Fort Wayne.
JOE BARTON 'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wa...
TRACY HICKMAN
I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember...
ALLY CONDIE It's all directed at the coach. None of this stuff were issues until Wayne Brent came to work for us...
LEE UNGER I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shri...
EOIN COLFER (Davis and Butler) are getting stronger game by game. They're bringing their experience onto the flo...
ANN TALBERT
Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST When you go to harvest some, lift the straw, remove the (dirt-free) spuds you need, and replace the ...
GARY SCHULDT
The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.
BRANDON SANDERSON We have Tar Heel Nation in Butler County, Missouri.
GENE HANSBROUGH
Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
MARGARET MITCHELL He would have no motive whatsoever to set a fire. Mark may be the obvious culprit, as in 'the butler...
DOUGLAS RAPPAPORT
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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
Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.
SAMUEL BUTLER
All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
SAMUEL BUTLER