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Samuel Butler Quotes
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it (Samuel Butler Quotes)
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life (Samuel Butler Quotes)
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 (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A lawyer’s dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them (Samuel Butler Quotes)
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence (Samuel Butler Quotes)
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted (Samuel Butler Quotes)
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence (Samuel Butler Quotes)
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do (Samuel Butler Quotes)
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 (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character (Samuel Butler Quotes)