171 Quotations by Samuel Butler
- 121. The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he no ...

- 122. The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

- 123. The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

- 124. The money men make lives after them.

- 125. The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to ap ...

- 126. The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

- 127. The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

- 128. The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

- 129. The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

- 130. The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is ...

- 131. The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

- 132. The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to ...

- 133. The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein ...

- 134. The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religi ...

- 135. The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

- 136. The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

- 137. The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

- 138. The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has co ...

- 139. Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man ma ...

- 140. Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

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