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His 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…
- A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
- Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
- The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
- A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
- I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
- A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
- God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
- The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
- There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
- 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…
- Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his…
- 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…
- A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all,…
- He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
More His Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold