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Samuel Butler quotes: Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies. Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Samuel Butler quotes: There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out. There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
Samuel Butler quotes: There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler quotes: 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. 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 quotes: In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler quotes: Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Samuel Butler quotes: A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Samuel Butler quotes: The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears
but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.
Samuel Butler quotes: 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. 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.
Samuel Butler quotes: Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler quotes: Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler quotes: Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways. Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.
Samuel Butler quotes: There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler quotes: Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. 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 quotes: It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of. It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
Samuel Butler quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: All truth is not to be told at all times. All truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel Butler quotes: Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
Samuel Butler quotes: Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Samuel Butler quotes: The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
Samuel Butler quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler quotes: To live is like to loveall reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it To live is like to love
all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it
Samuel Butler quotes: Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler quotes: To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious. To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.
Samuel Butler quotes: Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Samuel Butler quotes: The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler quotes: If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler quotes: The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Samuel Butler quotes: The major sin is the sin of being born. The major sin is the sin of being born.
Samuel Butler quotes: Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Samuel Butler quotes: The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Samuel Butler quotes: We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
Samuel Butler quotes: 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. 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.
Samuel Butler quotes: Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it. Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.
Samuel Butler quotes: A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler quotes: Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
Samuel Butler quotes: 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, 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 quotes: If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler quotes: To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead. To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
Samuel Butler quotes: Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate. Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.
Samuel Butler quotes: It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler quotes: Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler quotes: God cannot alter the past, though historians can. God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler quotes: Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Samuel Butler quotes: The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler quotes: Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler quotes: One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Samuel Butler quotes: Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler quotes: You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler quotes: To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead. To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.
Samuel Butler quotes: 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. 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.
Samuel Butler quotes: Oaths are but words, and words are but wind. Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Samuel Butler quotes: Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
Samuel Butler quotes: Mention but the word "divinity," and our sense of the divine is clouded. Mention but the word "divinity," and our sense of the divine is clouded.
Samuel Butler quotes: Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler quotes: They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten? They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?
Samuel Butler quotes: The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation. The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
Samuel Butler quotes: Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away. Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
Samuel Butler quotes: All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler quotes: Life is not an exact science, it is an art. Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butler quotes: There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas. There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.
Samuel Butler quotes: Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler quotes: Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler quotes: Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler quotes: Logic is like the swordthose who appeal to it shall perish by it. Logic is like the sword
those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler quotes: Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both
Samuel Butler quotes: There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel Butler quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Friends are like money, easier made than kept. Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler quotes: Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler quotes: Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics. Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.
Samuel Butler quotes: The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler quotes: Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate. Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.
Samuel Butler quotes: Opinions have vested interests just as men have. Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler quotes: Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler quotes: Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. 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 quotes: The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Samuel Butler quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler quotes: Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law. Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law.
Samuel Butler quotes: Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler quotes: A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler quotes: Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Samuel Butler quotes: 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. 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 quotes: God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch. God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
Samuel Butler quotes: He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright. He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
Samuel Butler quotes: I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry. I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
Samuel Butler quotes: The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Samuel Butler quotes: [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Samuel Butler quotes: We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
Samuel Butler quotes: History is a bucket of ashes. History is a bucket of ashes.
Samuel Butler quotes: Life is one long process of getting tired. Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler quotes: Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
Samuel Butler quotes: Let every man be true and every god a liar. Let every man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel Butler quotes: Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap. Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler quotes: For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls,The learned hold, are animals;So horses they affirm to beMere engines made by geometry 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 quotes: The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler quotes: 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. 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.

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