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Samuel Butler Quotes

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Impossible Compromise Fall Inevitable

It might be that you never want to get married, or it might be that you really, really do. Either is fine. What's not fine is not to be honest about what you want.

Joanna Coles

You Want Never Honest Get Fine

It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.

John Hillcoat

Positive Beautiful People World Poor

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

Michael Behe

Life Living Out Necessary Chemical

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Ambrose Bierce

Intelligence Independence Mad High

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

Win Honor Cheating Fail Would Even

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Mason Cooley

Literature First Theory Only Came

We love salt, fat and sugar. We're hard-wired to go for those flavors. They trip our dopamine networks, which are our craving networks.

Michael Pollan

Love Fat Salt Go Sugar Craving

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Start Homework Talking Dubai Will

I want to provide a well-rounded perspective of life.

Coolio

Life Perspective Want Well-Rounded

I remember very vividly a little plaid dress on which my father sewed all these hanging beads, little horses and stuff. It was my favourite thing ever. I had it when I was four, and I kept it until I was 12, when I gave it to the little neighbour girl. For years, I regretted giving it to her, even though I had no use for it.

Sheila Heti

Father Girl Dress Giving Remember

I arranged the first meeting between Ariel Sharon and the settlers.

Tzipi Livni

Meeting First Between Settlers

I make very basic country rustic furniture.

Thomas Middleditch

Furniture Country Make Rustic Basic