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There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
— Samuel Butler
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
— Samuel Butler
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
— Samuel Butler
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
— Samuel Butler
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. — Samuel Butler
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
— Samuel Butler
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
— Samuel Butler
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 good for us.
— Samuel Butler
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
— Samuel Butler
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
— Samuel Butler
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
— Samuel Butler
All truth is not to be told at all times.
— Samuel Butler
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
— Samuel Butler
Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
— Samuel Butler
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
— Samuel Butler
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
— Samuel Butler
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
— Samuel Butler
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
— Samuel Butler
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
— Samuel Butler
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
— Samuel Butler
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
— Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
— Samuel Butler
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 with it.
— Samuel Butler
Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
— Samuel Butler
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
— Samuel Butler
Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.
— Samuel Butler
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
— Samuel Butler
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
— Samuel Butler
Life is one long process of getting tired.
— Samuel Butler
The room in fact was as depressing from its slatternliness as from its atmosphere of erudition.
— Samuel Butler
Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
— Samuel Butler
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
— Samuel Butler
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
— Samuel Butler
Tobacco ... is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.
— Bertrand Russell
History is a bucket of ashes.
— Samuel Butler
For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls,The learned hold, are animals;
So horses they affirm to be
Mere engines made by geometry — Samuel Butler
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
— Samuel Butler
But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.
— Christopher Morley
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
— Samuel Butler
The only realism in art is of the imagination.
— William Carlos Williams
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
— Samuel Butler
I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.
— Samuel Butler
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
— Samuel Butler
Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
— Samuel Butler
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
— Samuel Butler
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
— Samuel Butler
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
— Samuel Butler
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
— Samuel Butler
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
— Samuel Butler
If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
— Samuel Butler
Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.
— Samuel Butler
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
— Samuel Butler
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
— Samuel Butler
He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
— Samuel Butler
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 tell a hundred years hence.
— Samuel Butler
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
— Samuel Butler
If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure,
— Samuel Butler
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
— Samuel Butler
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
— Samuel Butler
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
— Samuel Butler
The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
— Samuel Butler
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
— Samuel Butler
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
— Samuel Butler
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
— Samuel Butler
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
— Samuel Butler
In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles.
— William Carlos Williams
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
— Samuel Butler
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
— Samuel Butler
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
— Samuel Butler
Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law.
— Samuel Butler
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
— Samuel Butler
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
— Samuel Butler
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
— Samuel Butler
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
— Samuel Butler
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
— Samuel Butler
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
— Samuel Butler
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
— Samuel Butler
