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
- Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon.
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
- Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
- He that is down can fall no lower.
- God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
- Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
- When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
- It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is
Best Quotes
- I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.
- I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
- At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'
- We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
- The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
- Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
- Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
- The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.