Samuel Butler Quotes

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902

Topics

VirtueHeadacheOnlyWouldPrecede

I'd much rather leave £2bn to charity, or £3bn or £4bn, than £1bn. That is my motivation to carry on working as hard as I do.

John Caudwell

CharityMotivationHardLeaveCarry

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

Robert Moog

BaseballOutUpBeatElectronics

It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy.

Shirley Manson

PositiveBalancePeopleThoughtsYou

I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We were down by six and won by two, and it was glorious. The stadium is so beautiful, and the way it frames the city when you're sitting high above the second base line is spectacular.

Mary Doria Russell

LiveBeautifulExperienceCityGame

The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.

Monica

LoveBestMeMomUnconditional Love

I feel like we need more aggression today.

Ludacris

TodayFeelMoreNeedAggression

A great thing about kids is they're just themselves and can't help it a lot of the times.

Jon Watts

GreatHelpGreat ThingJustKids

Big money is ruining the political system.

Arlen Specter

MoneyPoliticalSystemBigRuining

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

Antoine Lavoisier

NatureKindsCompositionLaboratory

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

William Samuel Johnson

HopeCourageWillWhateverAlso

You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

FamilyFriends And FamilyFriendsYou

It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as anything else, this is the key in the elimination of discrimination in the United States.

Thurgood Marshall

KeyDiscriminationImportantAnything

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