The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. — 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
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his… — 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
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to… — 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
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
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
