Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. — Samuel Butler Belief Copy Share Image
“Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.” — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. — Samuel Butler Language Copy Share Image
God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians — Samuel Butler God Copy Share Image
Friendship is like a bank account,u cannot continue to draw on it without making deposits. — Samuel Butler Bank account Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right… — Samuel Butler Praise Copy Share Image
“All young ladies are either very pretty or very clever or very sweet; they may take their choice as to which category… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in… — Samuel Butler Christ 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
“His knowledge was not far behind The knight's, but of another kind, And he another way came by't ; Some call it… — Samuel Butler Art Copy Share Image
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live.… — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged… — Samuel Butler Doctor Copy Share Image
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. — Samuel Butler Faith Copy Share Image
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Being Copy Share Image
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. — Samuel Butler Benefit of the doubt Copy Share Image
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. — Samuel Butler Education Copy Share Image
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. — Samuel Butler Art Copy Share Image
One should judge by appearance only: what is hidden should remain so — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Animal Copy Share Image
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. — Samuel Butler Devil Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Embryo Copy Share Image
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. — Samuel Butler Beauty Copy Share Image
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Animals Copy Share Image
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler — Samuel Butler Art Copy Share Image
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. — Samuel Butler Failure Copy Share Image
“the baby must be either a boy or girl — this much, at any rate, was clear.” — Samuel Butler Baby Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success. — Samuel Butler Being bored Copy Share Image
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler Existence Copy Share Image
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
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