Samuel Butler Famous Quotes
"Loyalty is still the same,Whether it win or lose the gameTrue as a dial to the sun,Although it be not shined upon."
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
"Life is not an exact science, it is an art."
"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."
God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
"God cannot alter the past, but historians can."
What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again Two hundred more.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
"It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies."
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
He that is down can fall no lower.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
"Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth."
The course of true anything does not run smooth.
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."
"There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule."
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books.
"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
"I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill."
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler Quotations
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
Isaac Asimov
"Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to."
Roger Zelazny
"Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy."
Marguerite de Valois
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop
"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
Elbert Hubbard
"One thing about my Aunt Nadie She was gruff on the outside, but if you ever needed something, like a spanking or a scolding, she'd give it to you."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief."
Sigmund Freud
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
Jacques Martin Barzun
"Rod It's a very personal, very important thing. Hell, it's a family motto. Now are you ready Just checking to make sure you're ready here it is - show me the money. OHHH SHOW ME THE MONEY Doesn't it make you feel good just to say that, Jerry Say it with me one time brother"
Jerry Maguire