Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Quote by Samuel Butler
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
- Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
- People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
- To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
- God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is
- All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
- He that is down can fall no lower.
Best Quotes
- The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
- As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
- Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
- My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.
- The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
- This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
- We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
- The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.