“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
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
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
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
“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to… — Samuel Butler Historians Copy Share Image
Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace -… — Samuel Butler Courage Copy Share Image
Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. — Samuel Butler Genius Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as… — Samuel Butler Animal Copy Share Image
“There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to… — Samuel Butler Doctor Copy Share Image
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable… — Samuel Butler Father Copy Share Image
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice… — Samuel Butler Absolutes Copy Share Image
Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go… — Samuel Butler Instinct Copy Share Image
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total… — Samuel Butler Abstinence Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing I… — Samuel Butler Bad health Copy Share Image
“The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family,… — Samuel Butler Family Copy Share Image
“Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it -… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"… — Samuel Butler Cat 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 Copy Share Image
An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no… — Samuel Butler Mind Copy Share Image
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their… — Samuel Butler Children Copy Share Image
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. — Samuel Butler Appreciation Copy Share Image
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of… — Samuel Butler Cleric Copy Share Image
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and… — Samuel Butler Lucky Copy Share Image
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the… — Samuel Butler Art Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst… — Samuel Butler Health Copy Share Image
“It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.” — Samuel Butler Character Copy Share Image
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
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