He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright. — Samuel Butler Birthright Copy Share Image
He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts. — Samuel Butler Good thoughts Copy Share Image
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. — Samuel Butler Amiable Copy Share Image
Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate. — Samuel Butler Destiny Copy Share Image
“Boys and young men are violent in their affections, but they are seldom very constant;” — Samuel Butler Love Copy Share Image
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. — Samuel Butler Christian Copy Share Image
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. — Samuel Butler Bible Copy Share Image
It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of. — Samuel Butler After death Copy Share Image
I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given… — Samuel Butler Alcohol Copy Share Image
Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any… — Samuel Butler Care Copy Share Image
In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country. — Samuel Butler Cannibalism Copy Share Image
There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not,… — Samuel Butler Care Copy Share Image
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would… — Samuel Butler Adultery Copy Share Image
Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain:… — Samuel Butler Authority Copy Share Image
“Can anyone do much for anyone else unless by making a will in his favour and dying then and there? Should not… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“The flesh of animals who feed excursively is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up.… — Samuel Butler Reading Copy Share Image
“For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our… — Samuel Butler Convention Copy Share Image
Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they… — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. — Samuel Butler Alcoholism Copy Share Image
“tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk” — Samuel Butler Business Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. — Samuel Butler Animal Copy Share Image
“Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law.” — Samuel Butler Christ Copy Share Image
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