Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Quote by Samuel Butler
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- He that is down can fall no lower.
- Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
- You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
- All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
- Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.
- All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
- The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is
Best Quotes
- I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
- Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
- Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
- There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
- Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
- What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
- Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
- Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
- God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
- Politics is not about money.