Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind — Samuel Butler Leadership Copy Share Image
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at… — Samuel Butler Business Copy Share Image
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the… — Samuel Butler Argument Copy Share Image
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler Academic Copy Share Image
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. — Samuel Butler Able Copy Share Image
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. — Samuel Butler Business Copy Share Image
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. — Samuel Butler Autumn Copy Share Image
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no… — Samuel Butler Mind 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 Accounts 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 Children 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 Dare Copy Share Image
“The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family,… — Samuel Butler Family Copy Share Image
“Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it -… — Samuel Butler Wastepaper Basket Copy Share Image
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total… — Samuel Butler Abstinence Copy Share Image
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when… — Samuel Butler Exalted Copy Share Image
One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground — Samuel Butler Ancestry Copy Share Image
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. — Samuel Butler Aphorism Copy Share Image
A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler Being bored Copy Share Image
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. — Samuel Butler Common Copy Share Image
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. — Samuel Butler Decent Copy Share Image
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. — Samuel Butler Instinct Copy Share Image
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once. — Samuel Butler Die 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 Lucky 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 Evil Copy Share Image
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. — Samuel Butler Crime Copy Share Image
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. — Samuel Butler Opinion Copy Share Image
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. — Samuel Butler Cold Copy Share Image
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler Existence Copy Share Image
“the baby must be either a boy or girl — this much, at any rate, was clear.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success. — Samuel Butler Being bored Copy Share Image
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. — Samuel Butler Faculty Copy Share Image
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the… — Samuel Butler Art Copy Share Image
“It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.” — Samuel Butler Character 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 Health Copy Share Image
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. — Samuel Butler Appreciation Copy Share Image
The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace -… — Samuel Butler Courage 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 Genius Copy Share Image
