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.
- The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- 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.
- Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
- There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.
- An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Best Quotes
- The past is a story you can't change, but the future is a limitless destiny you can venture. Make your own history and your story shall live to be told.
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
- In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
- Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
- Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
- There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
- If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
- Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
- For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.