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Samuel Butler Quotes

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Truth Truth Is Rich Precious Divine

But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.

Work Care Now Want Project Really

When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.

Child You Bad Back Bad Habits Cut

A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.

Day American Two Pay Number Willing

I've got a few reasons why I've got to maintain stability. I've got into wanting people to hear my music. I've got something I want people to hear because I know they'll like it. They've gotta like it! The songs I've been writing are the sort of things you have to like.

Music People Writing You Know Want

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

You Lose Three Games Become Top

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

Love Partner Conversation Dumb How

A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land - how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

Water Building Trees Reality House

For me, a dream partner is someone who is willing to learn and to put their trust in me.

Trust Me Partner Learn Someone Who

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Amazing Learn You Intentions Your

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

Words Speak Better Silent Will Our

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

William Shakespeare

Live Men Honor Loss Die Enough

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Live Words Happy Mind Self Unhappy

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