[ but- Quotes ]



Showing search results for But+ Quotes - 2041 quotes about but+ - Dictionary Quotes
2041 quotes

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.
Politicians and Politics
Billy Boy Franklin

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 696 votes

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
Change
James Dillet Freeman

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 740 votes

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
Youth
French Proverb

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 685 votes

It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
French Proverb

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 661 votes

The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.
Nationalities and Nationalism
French Proverb

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 641 votes

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
Past
French Proverb

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 565 votes

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Writers and Writing
Sigmund Freud

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 676 votes

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
Men
Betty Friedan

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 726 votes

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Charity
Erich Fromm

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 626 votes

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Security
Erich Fromm

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 742 votes

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Death and Dying
Erich Fromm

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 668 votes

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Diplomacy
Robert Frost

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 752 votes

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Promises
Robert Frost

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 659 votes

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Teachers and Teaching
Robert Frost

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 714 votes

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Life and Death
Robert Frost

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 704 votes

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
Grave
Robert Frost

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 681 votes

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
Time and Time Management
Robert Frost

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 646 votes

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Secrets
Robert Frost

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 658 votes

What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
Birth
Robert Frost

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 714 votes

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Comedy and Comedians
Christopher Fry

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 773 votes

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
Patriotism
J. William Fulbright

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 714 votes

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
Misfortunes
R. Buckminster Fuller

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 757 votes

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Beauty
R. Buckminster Fuller

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 720 votes

A book that is shut is but a block.
Books - Reading
Thomas Fuller

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 669 votes

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Gossip
Thomas Fuller

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 711 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun