171 Quotations by Samuel Butler
- 41. For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
- 42. For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an ...
- 43. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- 44. From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
- 45. Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps ...
- 46. Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds ...
- 47. God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
- 48. Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated ...
- 49. Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are--they depend not upond these, but ...
- 50. He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m ...
- 51. He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
- 52. Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
- 53. I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more s ...
- 54. I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
- 55. I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
- 56. I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obl ...
- 57. If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wa ...
- 58. If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.
- 59. If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in ...
- 60. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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