Samuel Butler Quotes

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthFoolLieManKnowTell

As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.

Joe Greene

DreamsYour DreamsTeamRoadRest

I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

BornI Was BornIrelandKnownAlso

When something happens, I always check myself and know it's going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a tough business for actors who are sensitive. If you try to hold on to things, you'll go crazy.

Jessica Chastain

BusinessMyselfCrazyToughYouGo

Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe... That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do that in some way. The musician's is through his music.

John Coltrane

LifeMusicThinkUniverseYouWay

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

Simon Greenleaf

LawFacePartyBurdenGenuine

When Ron Howard rings you up and says, 'I'd like you to do my film,' you do it.

Tom Holland

YouUpRingsFilmLikeSays

The first Friday of every month is what we call Numbers Day - it's the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the monthly jobs report. We have a ritual at the Labor Department - at 8 A.M., we gather around a table in my office, and the commissioner of labor statistics briefs me and the department's senior leadership on the numbers.

Tom Perez

LeadershipDayMeFridayStatistics

That's the game plan - I've got it written down on paper: beat everyone. And that's what I'm looking forward to doing.

Robert Whittaker

Looking ForwardLookingGameForward

A lot of the O'Hare Modernization Plan may have been a mistake.

Mike Quigley

MistakePlanMayBeenModernization

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

BusinessKnowWatchBeenShould

I get depressed pretty easily but have found the best way to combat it is to surround yourself with people you can talk openly with about it.

Miles Heizer

BestYourselfSurround YourselfYou

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

FutureHappinessPresentEnjoyTrue

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