Samuel Butler's Quotes

Samuel Butler's Quotes 131

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

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...

The history of the world is the record of the weakness frailty and death of...

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of...

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

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

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own...

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

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

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that...

We all like to forgive and love best not those who offend us least nor who...

Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a...

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be but like our...

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.

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

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

Life is not an exact science it is an art.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

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