Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate. — Samuel Butler Accounts Copy Share Image
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. — Samuel Butler Conscience Copy Share Image
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. — Samuel Butler Gossip Copy Share Image
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler Art Copy Share Image
“I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.” — Samuel Butler Confidence Copy Share Image
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. — Samuel Butler Atoms Copy Share Image
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. — Samuel Butler Child 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
Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on… — Samuel Butler Happiness Copy Share Image
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he… — Samuel Butler Animal Copy Share Image
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy,… — Samuel Butler Compassion Copy Share Image
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but… — Samuel Butler Done 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 Adversity Copy Share Image
And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with… — Samuel Butler Language Copy Share Image
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Enjoy Copy Share Image
The man who takes time to explain his mistakes has little time left for anything else — Samuel Butler Failure Copy Share Image
God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour. — Samuel Butler Devil Copy Share Image
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — Samuel Butler Character Copy Share Image
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is… — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without. — Samuel Butler Evolution Copy Share Image
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. — Samuel Butler Cases Copy Share Image
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. — Samuel Butler Bounds Copy Share Image
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. — Samuel Butler Bounds Copy Share Image
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. — Samuel Butler Analogy Copy Share Image
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. — Samuel Butler Arrogance Copy Share Image
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. — Samuel Butler Development Copy Share Image
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. — Samuel Butler Argument Copy Share Image
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. — Samuel Butler Able Copy Share Image
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. — Samuel Butler Greater Copy Share Image
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. — Samuel Butler Able Copy Share Image
“All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.” — Samuel Butler Animal Copy Share Image
Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child — Samuel Butler Children 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
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. — Samuel Butler Doe Copy Share Image
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