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| Look before you leap. -- Samuel Butler | |
| The course of true anything never does run smooth. -- Samuel Butler | |
| "In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved." -- Butler | |
| Remember: Silly is a state of Mind, Stupid is a way of Life. -- Dave Butler | |
| God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. -- Samuel Butler | |
| The function of the expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons. -- Dr. David Butler, British psephologist | |
| I thought there was something fishy about the butler. Probably a Pisces, working for scale. -- Firesign Theatre, "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger" | |
| A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing. -- Samuel Butler | |
| All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler, "Notebooks" | |
| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to lie well. -- Samuel Butler | |
| Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) | |
| Remember: Silly is a state of Mind, Stupid is a way of Life. -- Dave Butler | |
| Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. -- Samuel Butler | |
| The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. -- William Butler Yeats | |
