Samuel Butler Quotes
+5The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
- Samuel Butler
+3Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victems he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler
+1I 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
+1God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
- Samuel Butler
+1Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
+1A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
- Samuel Butler
+1The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
- Samuel Butler
+1Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions.
- Samuel Butler
+1All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
+1Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
- Samuel Butler
+1If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
- Samuel Butler
+1Logic is like the sword those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
- Samuel Butler
+1A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
- Samuel Butler
+1He knew whatsever ’s to be known, But much more than he knew would own.
- Samuel Butler
+1He knew what’s what, and that’s as high As metaphysic wit can fly.
- Samuel Butler
+1Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
- Samuel Butler
+1Deep sighted in intelligence, Ideas, atoms, influences.
- Samuel Butler
+1Letters 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
+1Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.
- Samuel Butler
+1Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
- Samuel Butler
+1I don’t mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
- Samuel Butler
+1Flying whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also,though he may go a different way about it.
- Samuel Butler
+1One’s stomach is one’s internal environment.
- Samuel Butler
+1Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler
+1The history of art is the history of revivals.
- Samuel Butler
+1The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.
- Samuel Butler
+1It 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
+1All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler
+1An 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
+1A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
- Samuel Butler
+1Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
- Samuel Butler
0Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child.
- Samuel Butler
0Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
- Samuel Butler
0Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
0Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
- Samuel Butler
0If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
- Samuel Butler
0Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
- Samuel Butler
0Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
- Samuel Butler
0Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler
