Samuel Butler Quotes
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
Quotes to Explore
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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
P. T. Barnum
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
Natalie Dormer
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Women drive box office.
Octavia Spencer
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
Hans Blix
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
Parker Stevenson
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Police can only act on intelligence.
P. Chidambaram
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
Hailee Steinfeld
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
Jack Canfield
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West
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Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
William Shakespeare
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
Carlos Ghosn
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In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
Jeff Greenfield
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There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.
Ann Jillian
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I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.
Neil Simon
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
