Best Samuel Butler Proverbs
- Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the… Assumes
- Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. Bred
- The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken too seriously Conviction
- An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones.… All
- I am the enfant terrible of literature and science Enfant
- Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries… Anything Else
- Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon. Dial
- The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places Advantage
- People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. According
- Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness Bad
- To be at all is to be religious more or less All
- There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get… End
- Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence Golden
- Youth is like spring, an overpraised season Like Spring
- To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but in practice very… Biting
- Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Goes
- Oaths are but words, and words but wind. Broken Promises
- Friendship is like money, more easily made than kept. Easily
- A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Bore
- I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till… Better
- The course of true anything never does run smooth. Anything Never
- The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing I n the Christian… Bad
- Friendship is like a bank account,u cannot continue to draw on it without making deposits. Account
- Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country. Cannibal
- He could foretell whats'ever was By consequence to come to pass. As Death of Great Men, Alterations, Diseases, Battels, Inundations. All this without th' Eclipse… All
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