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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
— Samuel Butler
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
— Samuel Butler
Did she struggle for life only out of habit, or because some part of her still hoped that there was something worth living for?
— Octavia E. Butler
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
— Samuel Butler
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
— William Butler Yeats
However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.
— Geezer Butler
Politics is largely a matter of heart.
— R. A. Butler
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.
— Geezer Butler
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
— William Butler Yeats
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
— William Butler Yeats
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant. — William Butler Yeats
We loved each other and were ignorant. — William Butler Yeats
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
— Samuel Butler
O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats
I'm very down-to-earth. I think I'm still 'street'.
— Gerard Butler
What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.
— Win Butler
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
— Samuel Butler
My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin.
— Carrie Butler
If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure,
— Samuel Butler
No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
— William Butler Yeats
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
— Samuel Butler
In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army.
— Smedley D. Butler
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
— Samuel Butler
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
— Samuel Butler
why can't I do what others have done - ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in this world.
— Octavia E. Butler
All because I fell in love with a madman.
— Carrie Butler
The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
— Samuel Butler
Our words must seem to be inevitable.
— William Butler Yeats
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
— Nicholas M. Butler