171 Quotations by Samuel Butler
- 21. An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
- 22. An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when intr ...
- 23. An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping an ...
- 24. Any class is all right if it will only let others be so.
- 25. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- 26. Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
- 27. Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will ...
- 28. Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
- 29. Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the othe ...
- 30. Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
- 31. Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
- 32. Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be b ...
- 33. Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
- 34. Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portra ...
- 35. Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will cons ...
- 36. Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
- 37. Faith is a kind of betting, or speculation.
- 38. Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
- 39. For every why he had a wherefore.
- 40. For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure -- tangible material prosperity in this world -- is t ...
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