One should judge by appearance only: what is hidden should remain so — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler — Samuel Butler Art Copy Share Image
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler Academic Copy Share Image
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. — Samuel Butler Faith Copy Share Image
“Union may be strength, but it is mere brute strength unless wisely directed.” — Samuel Butler Strength Copy Share Image
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas. — Samuel Butler Absolutes Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right… — Samuel Butler Advantage Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in… — Samuel Butler Bad health Copy Share Image
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not… — Samuel Butler Christianity Copy Share Image
A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep… — Samuel Butler Comedy Copy Share Image
Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go… — Samuel Butler 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
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the… — Samuel Butler Argument Copy Share Image
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind — Samuel Butler Leadership Copy Share Image
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. — Samuel Butler Character Copy Share Image
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. — Samuel Butler Fool Copy Share Image
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. — Samuel Butler Atheist Copy Share Image
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain — Samuel Butler Character Copy Share Image
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I never knew a writer yet whotook the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. — Samuel Butler Conviction Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Medical Copy Share Image
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all… — Samuel Butler Apology 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 Books Copy Share Image
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money,… — Samuel Butler Brain Copy Share Image
“No boy can resist being fed well by a good-natured and still handsome woman. Boys are very like nice dogs in this… — Samuel Butler Boys Copy Share Image
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown… — Samuel Butler Controversy 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 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 Copy Share Image
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