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Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did


William Allen Butler

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KATHY ACKER The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning...
ALFRED DE VIGNY Reunited with strawberry, raspberry and blueberry, I am berry, berry happy to be back working with J...
BILL COSBY My God. Better than I could possibly explain.
EUGENE NELSON Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be...
VOLTAIRE The prospect for some profit taking ahead of the weekend break doubtless remains.
MATTHEW BUCKLAND The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Doubtless we cannot see that other higher Spaceland now, because we have no eye in our stomachs.
EDWIN A. ABBOTT People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but ...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries.
KARL MENNINGER Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence - stuffed and in a museum
MARK TWAIN God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
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VOLTAIRE I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And...
VOLTAIRE Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we hav...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD God created man, but I could do better.
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VOLTAIRE You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born ...
MARIE ANTOINETTE English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by...
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HENRY JAMES SUMNER MAINE If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures...
MARK TWAIN Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures...
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PAUL CEZANNE I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God. Keep me on a short leash.
MARIA SC Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its de...
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MARK TWAIN I should have made better adjustments than I did.
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BIBLE It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happi...
EDWIN MARKHAM The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hid...
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Who will go drive with Fergus now,
And pierce the deep wood's ...
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JOSEPH E. MCCABE God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!
TROY PERRY God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!.
TROY PERRY Availability is better than ability for God.
UNKNOWN The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares int...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.
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JOHN DRYDEN Dear God, make my today better than yesterday, make my tomorrow better than today..
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers
ANON. God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
RUDYARD KIPLING God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
JEWISH PROVERB God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
DAVID C. GROSS It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that li...
GILBERT MURRAY God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
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AMBER TAMBLYN God can dream a better dream for you than you can!
OPRAH WINFREY You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
RICK WARREN You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
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HOWARD NEMEROV When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . .
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before w...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS May she be granted beauty and yet notBeauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,Or hers before a loo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore. . . .I hear it in the deep heart's core.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I heard the old, old, men say "all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS There's more enterpriseIn walking naked.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Farewell -- farewell,For I am weary of the weight of time.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must s...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once lo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Out of Ireland have we come.Great hatred, little room,Maimed us at the start.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Life is a long preparation for something that never happens
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Come swish around, my pretty punk,And keep me dancing stillThat I may stay a sober manAlthough I dri...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I sigh that kiss you,For I must ownThat I shall miss youWhen you have grown.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-f...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps,...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I a...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gif...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS