171 Quotations by Samuel Butler
- 141. There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
- 142. There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that every ...
- 143. There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
- 144. There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
- 145. There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
- 146. There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
- 147. There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain th ...
- 148. There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
- 149. Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men t ...
- 150. Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
- 151. To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
- 152. To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
- 153. To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that ...
- 154. To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.
- 155. Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
- 156. Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
- 157. Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a tr ...
- 158. We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, ...
- 159. We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the ...
- 160. We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.
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