R.E. Butler Quotes

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

My Range Rover is great for LA. You can take surfboards on it and stick some bikes in the back. And if you kidnap people you could tie them up in the back, there's space for your chloroform.

The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.

Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.

The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

Where there is nothing, there is God.

Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will.

If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.