Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
– Samuel Butler
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- The greater the wisdom,the greater the mind.The greater the courage,the greater the heart.The greater the love,the greater the soul. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children. – Margaret Atwood
- God will shout during your storms, whisper during your sunshine and sing during the rarest rainbows you will encounter. – Shannon L Alder
- The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity. – Leonard Ravenhill
- We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. – Samuel Butler
- If it must be enjoyed, then it must be done. And if it must be done, then it must be done well. If it is done well, it is enjoyed well. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Wisdom from Top Butler: Guard yourself at all times but don’t let anyone lead you to live a guarded life that is all. – Donavan Nelson Butler
- Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children. – Samuel Butler
- People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. – Gabrielle Zevin
- The greater a man’s folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life. – Dalai Lama XIV
- Your courage will be tested during the adversity as well as during the change. – Amit Kalantri
- If a man does not treat you like a princess during courtship, he will not treat you like a queen during marriage. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. – Samuel Butler
- The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. – Samuel Butler
- To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious. – Samuel Butler
- Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler
- In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. – Samuel Butler
- Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics. – Samuel Butler
- Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler
- Words are clothes that thoughts wear – Samuel Butler
- Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. – Samuel Butler
- Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ’s having healed his mother-in-law. – Samuel Butler
- A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. – Samuel Butler
- A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. – Samuel Butler
- We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. – Samuel Butler
- We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them. – Samuel Butler
- The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. – 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
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- I intend to achieve my goals during my lifetime, but if I fail, I will not rest even in the afterlife – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- What is it? Tens, I can see the stick up your arse from here. I’m dying remember? Dying people don’t have time for silly moods – Amber Kizer
- Everyone’s dying, Milcah. Some people are just dying sooner than others. – KK Hendin
- The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done. – Charles ens
- If they say, it can’t be done, Ask, -˜Why not?’ It can be done. It will be done! – Lailah Gifty Akita
- What needs to be done must be done. With grace, it will be done. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was given that other lifetime. – Raymond Carver
- I wasn’t dying alone. My beloved was dying with me. – Jannat Bhat
- Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we’re not dying.Okay. – Cormac McCarthy