Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the...

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the...

There is no bore like a clever bore.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that...

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall...

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should...

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should...

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand...

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand...

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription....

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription....

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes...

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes...

The want of money is the root of all evil.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

The man who takes time to explain his mistakes has little time left for anything...

The man who takes time to explain his mistakes has little time left for anything...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a...

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a...

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in...

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in...

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy....

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy....

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is...

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is...