Logo
Oaths are but words, and words but wind. - Samuel Butler (1612-168

Oaths are but words, and words but wind. – Samuel Butler (1612-1680), Hudribas

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Language
category

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. – Lewis Thomas

Category:
Language

Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Language

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Language

If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos. – Prince Of Wales Charles

Category:
Language

Random Quotes

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine. – Ernest Rutherford

Category:
Energy

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true. – Lenny Kravitz

Category:
good

Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, Hey, women already rule my life. But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage. – Dee Dee Myers

Category:
Change

Israel cant make peace without the clear support of the United States. – Alan Dershowitz

Category:
Peace