Samuel Butler Quotes:
A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Samuel Butler
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Samuel Butler
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
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
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
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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
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
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel Butler
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
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
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Samuel Butler
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler
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
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Samuel Butler
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