Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing I… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
