Best Samuel Butler Thoughts
- Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime Dying
- Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. Autumn
- Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. Analogy
- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Any
- All truth is not to be told at all times. All
- The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Bible
- A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. Better
- People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. Always Good
- There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. Fools
- He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. Complies
- It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. All
- When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once. Anyone
- A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. Dangerous
- Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. Same
- Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. Faith
- Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. Bad
- To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. All
- Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. Baptism
- Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. Allowed
- It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. Bounds
- We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. Atoms
- Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in… Depend
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat Animal
- The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day. Contribution
- It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. All
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