Famous Quotes
298 Quotations with Butler.
- 261. William Butler Yeats: Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial e ...
- 262. William Butler Yeats: I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a ser ...
- 263. William Butler Yeats: I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to mak ...
- 264. William Butler Yeats: Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hopi ...
- 265. William Butler Yeats: Now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a roc ...
- 266. William Butler Yeats: Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. ...
- 267. William Butler Yeats: This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are comp ...
- 268. William Butler Yeats: Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
- 269. William Butler Yeats: Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as ...
- 270. William Butler Yeats: You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say t ...
- 271. Nicholas Murray Butler: Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence ...
- 272. Samuel Butler: Loyalty is still the same,
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- 273. Samuel Butler: When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do ...
- 274. Samuel Butler: Life is playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes ...
- 275. Samuel Butler: Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else ...
- 276. Samuel Butler: There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
- 277. Samuel Butler: Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are--they depend ...
- 278. Samuel Butler: A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him fro ...
- 279. Samuel Butler: An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ide ...
- 280. Samuel Butler: The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.