Samuel Butler's Quotes

Samuel Butler's Quotes 131

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison...

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the...

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of...

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is...

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing...

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because...

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they...

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct...

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting...

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is...

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him...

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater...

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst...

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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