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He Quotes by Samuel Butler
- If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before…
- Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the…
- The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
- Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
- A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school…
- Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
- To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
- The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you,…
- 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.
- One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
- They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
- He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is…
- When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will…
- Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are…
- He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
More He Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle