« All Most Quotes · Samuel Butler's Page
Most Quotes by Samuel Butler
- The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good…
- We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make…
- Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
- It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
- Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
- The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
- The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
- 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…
- Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
- Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.
- When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a…
- For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster