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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