| 121 Famous Quotes by Samuel Butler (1)
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“So justice while she winks at crimes,
Stumbles on innocence sometimes.”
Justice Quotes Source: Hudibras (canto II, pt. II, l. 1177)
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“And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,
Was beat with fist instead of a stick.”
Preaching Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 11)
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“And he that makes his soul his surety,
I think, does give the best security.”
Soul Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 203)
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“For truth is precious and divine;
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
Truth Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto II, l. 257)
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“'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.”
Truth Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III)
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“And poets by their sufferings grow,--
As if there were no more to do,
To make a poet excellent,
But only want and discontent.”
Poets Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts
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“And force them, though it was in spite
Of Nature and their stars, to write.”
Authorship Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 647)
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“With mortal crisis doth portend,
My days to appropinque an end.”
Future Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 589)
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“To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”
Folly Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 923)
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“Whatever Sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.”
Argument Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 131)
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“He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a Lord may be an owl,
A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,
And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.”
Argument Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 71)
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“I've heard old cunning stagers
Say, fools for arguments use wagers.”
Argument Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 297)
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“He that is down can fall no lower.”
Failure Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 878)
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“Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.”
Failure Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 878)
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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Failure Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 878)
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“Nothing's more dull and negligent
Than an old, lazy government,
That knows no interest of state,
But such as serves a present strait.”
Government Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 159)
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“Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat;
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.”
Lying Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 821)
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“A grisly meteor on his face.”
Stars Quotes Source: Cobbler and Vicar of Bray
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“This hairy meteor did announce
The fall of sceptres and of crowns.”
Stars Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, 247)
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“Cry out upon the stars for doing
Ill offices, to cross their wooing.”
Stars Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 17)
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“True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon.”
Sun dial mottoes Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 175)
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“The worst of rebels never arm
To do their king or country harm,
But draw their swords to do them good,
As doctors cure by letting blood.”
Rebellion Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 181)
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“Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!”
Soldiers Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 1)
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“So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on
The mountain's top, his lofty haven,
And all the passengers he bore
Were on the new world set ashore,
He made it next his chief design
To plant and propagate a vine,
Which since has overwhelm'd and drown'd
Far greater number, on dry ground,
Of wretched mankind, one by one,
Than all the flood before had done.”
Wine and spirits Quotes Source: Satire Upon Drunkenness (l. 105)
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“And still be doing, never done.”
Work Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 204)
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