Quote by Samuel Butler
A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg. - Samuel Butler

A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

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Opinion
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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. – Samuel Butler

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Christianity
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler

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best
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Other Quotes from
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. – Joseph Addison

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Nature

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. – Thomas Aquinas

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Nature

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. – Lord Chesterfield

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Nature

I am two with nature. – Woody Allen

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Nature

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Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it. – Mary Tyler Moore

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Dieting

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. – T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926

Category:
Goals

Im sorry, if you were right, Id agree with you. – Robin Williams

Category:
funny

Kinkades paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, Id love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkades work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open. – Jerry Saltz

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Art