"God and the Devil are an effort after……" — Samuel Butler

"God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor."

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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler has 228 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to…
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till…
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them…
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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…

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. — Teresa of Avila
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate… — Teresa of Avila
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. — Pearl Bailey
I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too. — Josephine Baker
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou
A church debt is the devil's salary. — Henry Ward Beecher
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between… — Hans Bender
God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The… — Ezra Taft Benson
A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an… — Ezra Taft Benson
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his… — Ambrose Bierce

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