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Samuel Butler Quotes and Quotations
 The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. - Samuel Butler | Animals Quotes  I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies. - Samuel Butler | Books and Reading Quotes The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. - Samuel Butler | Books and Reading Quotes Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler | Books and Reading Quotes I can generally bear the separation, but I don't like the leave-taking. - Samuel Butler | Change and Transience Quotes People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised. - Samuel Butler | Christians and Christianity Quotes Conscience is thoroughly well-bred, and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. - Samuel Butler | Conscience Quotes Neither have they hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away. - Samuel Butler | Courage and Bravery Quotes The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence. - Samuel Butler | Critics and Criticism Quotes When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is to die at once. - Samuel Butler | Death and Dying Quotes If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death. - Samuel Butler | Death and Dying Quotes Life is like playing a violin solo in public, and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler | Experience Quotes Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row, we are steered by fate. - Samuel Butler | Fate and Destiny Quotes It does not matter much what a man hates, provided he hates something. - Samuel Butler | Hatred Quotes An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. - Samuel Butler | Hell and the Devil Quotes A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. - Samuel Butler | Heredity Quotes It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence. - Samuel Butler | History and Historians Quotes Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. - Samuel Butler | Hypocrisy Quotes The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them. - Samuel Butler | Knowledge Quotes A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. - Samuel Butler | Law and Lawyers Quotes We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. - Samuel Butler | Liars and Lying Quotes I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. - Samuel Butler | Liars and Lying Quotes Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler | Life Quotes Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler | Life Quotes Life is one long process of getting tired. - Samuel Butler | Life Quotes To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler | Love Quotes I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. - Samuel Butler | Medicine and Sickness Quotes When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is to die at once. - Samuel Butler | Money Quotes All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others. - Samuel Butler | Philosophy Quotes The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. - Samuel Butler | Praise and Flattery Quotes All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Progress Quotes Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence. - Samuel Butler | Tact and Diplomacy Quotes People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. - Samuel Butler | Taste Quotes Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game; True as a dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon. - Samuel Butler | Trust Quotes To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. - Samuel Butler | Trust Quotes It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds. - Samuel Butler | Vice Quotes A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal. - Samuel Butler | Virtue Quotes Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. - Samuel Butler | Friends and Money Quotes All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler | Happiness Quotes People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. - Samuel Butler | Acceptance Quotes A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. - Samuel Butler | Friendship Quotes Faith is a kind of betting, or speculation. - Samuel Butler | Faith and Unity Quotes You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. - Samuel Butler | Faith and Unity Quotes Our self-conceit sustains, and always must sustain us. - Samuel Butler | Self-Confidence Quotes The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than without. - Samuel Butler | Self-Reliance Quotes All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler | Simplicity Quotes What runs through a person like water through a sieve. - Samuel Butler | One Day Quotes Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone. - Samuel Butler | This Moment Quotes Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters. - Samuel Butler | Creating Positive Change Quotes It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held, and not in the dogma or want of dogma, that the danger lies. - Samuel Butler | Creating Positive Change Quotes Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler | Decisions Quotes Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler | Decisions Quotes The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof. - Samuel Butler | Decisions Quotes To live is like to love: all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it. - Samuel Butler | Instincts Quotes No matter how ill we may be, nor how low we may have fallen, we should not change identity with any other person. - Samuel Butler | Right Quotes All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Motivation Quotes People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. - Samuel Butler | Realistic Expectations Quotes All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler | Goals Quotes Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. - Samuel Butler | Other Ways to Overcome Fear Quotes There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain. - Samuel Butler | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. - Samuel Butler | Success Quotes We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire. - Samuel Butler | Success Quotes To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler | Life Quotes Man, unlike the animal, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler | Lighten up Quotes The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too. - Samuel Butler | Peace Quotes You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. - Samuel Butler | Spirituality Quotes All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Money Quotes Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler | Lying Quotes All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Inspirational Quotes All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Inspirational Quotes All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Inspirational Quotes All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Inspirational Quotes All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Inspirational Quotes All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Inspirational Quotes All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Inspirational Quotes All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler | Inspirational Quotes 
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