Samuel Butler's Quotes

Samuel Butler's Quotes 131

For truth is precious and divine too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

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

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

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion...

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an...

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father and I like my music to be the...

Life is like music it must be composed by ear feeling and instinct not by...

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

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

The three most important things a man has are briefly his private parts...

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh...

Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat...

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...

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

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

In law nothing is certain but the expense.

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

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