“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
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
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one… — Samuel Butler Adapted 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 mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to… — Samuel Butler Doctors 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 Intelligence Copy Share Image
“All young ladies are either very pretty or very clever or very sweet; they may take their choice as to which category… — Samuel Butler Young ladies Copy Share Image
God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians — Samuel Butler God Copy Share Image
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable… — Samuel Butler Father Copy Share Image
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. — Samuel Butler Language Copy Share Image
Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying… — Samuel Butler Bed Copy Share Image
“Boys and young men are violent in their affections, but they are seldom very constant;” — Samuel Butler Love Copy Share Image
A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep… — Samuel Butler Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
“All our lives long, every day and every hour, we are engaged in the process of accommodating our changed and unchanged selves… — Samuel Butler Every day 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
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — Samuel Butler Character Copy Share Image
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. — Samuel Butler Crime Copy Share Image
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. — Samuel Butler Analogy Copy Share Image
“His knowledge was not far behind The knight's, but of another kind, And he another way came by't ; Some call it… — Samuel Butler Art 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
“All young ladies are either very pretty or very clever or very sweet; they may take their choice as to which category… — Samuel Butler Young ladies Copy Share Image
