The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing I… — Samuel Butler Bad health Copy Share Image
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away. — Samuel Butler Enough Copy Share Image
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names,… — Samuel Butler Aim Copy Share Image
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of… — Samuel Butler Friendship 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 Old times Copy Share Image
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. — Samuel Butler Fool 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 Funny 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 Bad 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 Accounts 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 Fall Copy Share Image
“I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me had asked to… — Samuel Butler Darwinism 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… — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. — Samuel Butler Loved and lost 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
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 man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler Bored 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
They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"… — Samuel Butler Cat Copy Share Image
If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen? — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
“a good deal of unkindness and selfishness on the part of parents towards children is not generally followed by ill consequences to… — Samuel Butler Children Copy Share Image
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. — Samuel Butler Belief Copy Share Image
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