Samuel Butler's Quotes

Samuel Butler's Quotes 131

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he...

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I...

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as...

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world...

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The...

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own...

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he...

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but...

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy...

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not...

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

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you...

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

The Bible may be the truth but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the...

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how...

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