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.
Quote by Samuel Butler
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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.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
- You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
- When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
- Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.
- To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
- To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
- 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.
- The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is
- The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- The course of true anything does not run smooth.
- The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.