Samuel Butler Quotes

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

Andreja Pejic

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I am absolutely in love with platforms and platform sneakers.

Jeffree Star

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There's nothing wrong with celebrating the good things in our past. But memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We need to cross-examine them, recognizing and accepting the inconsistencies and gaps in those that make us proud and happy as well as those that cause us pain.

Stephanie Coontz

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Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Tom Chatfield

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If there's age discrimination - and there may be - I've always felt that the person who discriminates is hurt more than the person being discriminated against, if the second person shucks it off and moves forward.

Marv Levy

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I'm looking forward to partnering with TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners. This transaction is a clear endorsement of J. Crew and the hard work and dedication of all of our associates.

Mickey Drexler

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My dad was a real fun guy, and despite his personal problems, he was a great father. It wasn't easy, but he did a good job of raising my sister Mary and I all by himself.

Molly Shannon

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Josh Billings

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The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

Jonathan Pryce

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At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.

Chelsea Clinton

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I am terrified of submarines.

Autumn Reeser

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Obama's very unpopular. I don't need a poll to tell me that.

Pete Gallego

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