Best Samuel Butler Sayings
- Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. Embryo
- Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. Appeal
- Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Argument
- For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Carnal
- When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. Death
- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. Academic
- Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. Both
- I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted. Exalted
- The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. Bad
- People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have… Absolutely
- Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Adapting
- I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. Accuracy
- I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. Inspirational
- The history of art is the history of revivals. Architecture
- To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. Beauty
- Oaths are but words, and words are but wind. Inspirational
- Be virtuous and you will be vicious. Inspirational
- Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. Abound
- If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence. Another Unreservedly
- Let every man be true and every god a liar. Every God
- No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. Appealing
- Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies. Bodies
- The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. Book
- Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. Atheism
- A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. Able
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