Famous Quotes / Samuel Butler
171 Quotations by Samuel Butler
- 161. What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, "I bet that my Redeemer ...
- 162. What runs through a person like water through a sieve.
- 163. When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself ...
- 164. When people get it into their heads that they are being specially favoured by the Almighty, they had ...
- 165. When the righteous man turn away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which ...
- 166. When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through eithe ...
- 167. When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
- 168. When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at onc ...
- 169. Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to ...
- 170. Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.
- 171. You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.