Samuel Butler quotes Born: 12/04/1835 Died: 06/18/1902 Country: united_kingdom

• The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. (Samuel Butler) [books]
• To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. (Samuel Butler) [thing]
• People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. (Samuel Butler) [people/religion]
• The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. (Samuel Butler) [lord]
• If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death. (Samuel Butler) [life/seriously/death]
• If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. (Samuel Butler) [opinion]
• Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (Samuel Butler) [conscience/wish]
• 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) [pleasure/fool/willpower/willpower]
• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. (Samuel Butler) [look/culture]
• People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. (Samuel Butler) [people/company]
• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. (Samuel Butler) [more]
• The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. (Samuel Butler) [benefit]
• It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper. (Samuel Butler) [point]
• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. (Samuel Butler) [men/death/life]
• There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. (Samuel Butler) [death]
• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. (Samuel Butler) [money]
• Eating is touch carried to the bitter end. (Samuel Butler) [start]
• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. (Samuel Butler) [civilization & progress/desire/organism]
• A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. (Samuel Butler) [genius/time/america/life]
• He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. (Samuel Butler) [life/god/willpower/take]
• God cannot alter the past, but historians can. (Samuel Butler) [god/past]
• An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. (Samuel Butler) [soul & body/life]
• 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) [remember/thing/bad/forget]
• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. (Samuel Butler) [faith]
• If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. (Samuel Butler) [god/thing/people/willpower]
• We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. (Samuel Butler) [love]
• The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. (Samuel Butler) [stomach]
• The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them. (Samuel Butler) [experts]
• There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. (Samuel Butler) [more]
• You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. (Samuel Butler) [faith]
• In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. (Samuel Butler)

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