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
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
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
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
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to… — Samuel Butler Doctor Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as… — Samuel Butler Animal Copy Share Image
“There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must… — Samuel Butler World Sin 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
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
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
“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to… — Samuel Butler Historians 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
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. — Samuel Butler Aphorism 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 man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler Being bored 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
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
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
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
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
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
Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of… — Samuel Butler Equations Copy Share Image
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who… — Samuel Butler Conscious Copy Share Image
“There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of… — Samuel Butler Children Copy Share Image
“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make… — Samuel Butler Easy Copy Share Image
Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that… — Samuel Butler Benefits Copy Share Image
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself… — Samuel Butler Doubt Copy Share Image
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the… — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the… — Samuel Butler Berries 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 Atheism Copy Share Image
When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or… — Samuel Butler Atoms Copy Share Image
