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Samuel Butler Quotes
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Some have mistaken blocks and posts, for spectres, apparitions, ghosts, with saucer eyes and horns; and some have heard the devil beat a drum (Samuel Butler Quotes)
She that with poetry is won, is but a desk to write upon; and what men say of her they mean No more than on the thing they lean (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Oaths were not purpos'd, more than law, to keep the good and just in awe, but to confine the bad and sinful, like mortal cattle in a penfold (Samuel Butler Quotes)
He that would win his dame must do As love does when he draws his bow; with one hand thrust the lady from, and with the other pull her home (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Those fierce inquisitors of wit, the critics, spare no flesh that ever writ; but just as tooth drawers find among the rout their own teeth work in pulling others out (Samuel Butler Quotes)
There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men, by which a skillful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts (Samuel Butler Quotes)
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on (Samuel Butler Quotes)
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason (Samuel Butler Quotes)
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such (Samuel Butler Quotes)
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing (Samuel Butler Quotes)
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others (Samuel Butler Quotes)
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself (Samuel Butler Quotes)
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us (Samuel Butler Quotes)
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable (Samuel Butler Quotes)
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success (Samuel Butler Quotes)
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly (Samuel Butler Quotes)
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them (Samuel Butler Quotes)