Samuel Butler Quotes

• But here our authors make a doubt Whether he were more wise or stout. Some hold the one and some the other; But howsoe’er they make a pother, The difference was so small his brain Out weighed his rage but half a grain; Which made some take him for a tool That knaves do work with, called a fool.

  Samuel Butler

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• A client is fain to hire a lawyer to keep from the injury of other lawyers—as Christians that travel in Turkey are forced to hire Janissaries, to protect them from the insolencies of other Turks.

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• Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

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• The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

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

  Samuel Butler

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• The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them.

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• It has been said that though G-d cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

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

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

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• All dogs know what most humans don’t that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

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• If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

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• An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

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• I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

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• Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness.

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• Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

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• To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes.

  Samuel Butler

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• Youth is like spring, an overpraised season.

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• Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden – not silence.

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• 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 rule.

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• To be at all is to be religious more or less.

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Samuel Butler (250)

Birth:	4th December, 1835
Death:	18th June, 1902
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

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