I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. — 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 Copy Share Image
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. — 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
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great… — 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
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or… — Samuel Butler 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 Copy Share Image
People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and… — Samuel Butler 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
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
