171 Quotations by Samuel Butler
- 61. If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole stor ...
- 62. If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t ...
- 63. If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
- 64. In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
- 65. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
- 66. Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
- 67. It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as tr ...
- 68. It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of r ...
- 69. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
- 70. It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came f ...
- 71. It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has s ...
- 72. It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and th ...
- 73. It is tact that is golden, not silence.
- 74. Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
- 75. Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
- 76. Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one ...
- 77. Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- 78. Life is one long process of getting tired.
- 79. Life is playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- 80. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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