| 121 Famous Quotes by Samuel Butler (1)
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“Through thick and thin.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, p. 370)
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“To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 923)
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“He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would lay forth
No more upon it than 'twas worth;
But as he got it freely, so
He spent it frank and freely too:
For saints themselves will sometimes be,
Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.”
Gifts Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 489)
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“Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
And make men giddy, proud, and vain.”
Authority Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 283)
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“He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains
in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.”
Authority Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 283)
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“Authority is never without hate.”
Authority Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 283)
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“And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike by Algebra.”
Learning Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, 125)
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“In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale.”
Learning Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 119)
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“For brevity is very good,
Where we are, or are not understood.”
Speech Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 669)
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“He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than
discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out
like a traitor's and shown publicly to the rabble.”
Speech Quotes Source: The Modern Politician
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“Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.”
Law Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 515)
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“Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like watches, go
Just as they're set, too fast or slow;
And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,
'Tis ten to one that side is cast.”
Law Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 359)
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“He knew what's what, and that's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.”
Knowledge Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 149)
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“Deep sighted in intelligence,
Ideas, atoms, influences.”
Knowledge Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 533)
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“Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.”
Knowledge Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 263)
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“He knew whats'ever 's to be known,
But much more than he knew would own.”
Knowledge Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 297)
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“Some have been beaten till they know
What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:
Some kick'd until they can feel whether
A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.”
Punishment Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 121)
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“For rhyme the rudder is of verses,
With which, like ships, they steer their courses.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 463)
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“Some force whole regions, in despite
O' geography, to change their site;
Make former times shake hands with latter,
And that which was before come after;
But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other's sake;
For one for sense, and one for rhyme,
I think's sufficient at one time.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 23)
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“He that will win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home.”
Wooing Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 449)
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“She that with poetry is won,
Is but a desk to write upon;
And what men say of her they mean
No more than on the thing they lean.”
Wooing Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 591)
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“For now the field is not far off
Where we must give the world a proof
Of deeds, not words.”
Deeds Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 867)
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“Why should not Conscience have vacation
As well as other Courts o' th' nation?
Have equal power to adjourn,
Appoint appearance and return?”
Conscience Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 317)
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“Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.”
Apparitions Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 145)
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“Like feather-bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.”
Beds Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 871)
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