171 Quotations by Samuel Butler
- 101. Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
- 102. People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
- 103. People are lucky and unlucky... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
- 104. People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or a ...
- 105. People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or a ...
- 106. People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...
- 107. Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in th ...
- 108. Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
- 109. Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on o ...
- 110. Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
- 111. The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in ...
- 112. The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
- 113. The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human on Sunday.
- 114. The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the ...
- 115. The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the ...
- 116. The dearer a thing is, the cheaper as a general rule we sell it.
- 117. The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter t ...
- 118. The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather ...
- 119. The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
- 120. The gods are those who either have money or do not want it.
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