Best Samuel Butler Quotations
- A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. Friends
- All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. All
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. All
- God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. Creativity
- Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. Abstinence
- If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that… Attend
- If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. Always Leads
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. All
- Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. Cellar
- Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. Character
- My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. Book
- Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. Claus
- One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. Beaten
- The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. Allowed
- The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. Able
- The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. Conservative
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Bore
- The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. Approach
- The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. Briefly
- There is no bore like a clever bore. Bore
- There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. Error
- There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. Absence
- There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. Affects
- They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' Cat
- Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. Beating
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