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

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. (Samuel Butler)
• 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)
• We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. (Samuel Butler)
• We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. (Samuel Butler)
• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. (Samuel Butler)
• When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. (Samuel Butler)
• When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once. (Samuel Butler)
• When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. (Samuel Butler)
• Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. (Samuel Butler)
• Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. (Samuel Butler)
• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. (Samuel Butler)
• You can do very l ittle with faith, but you can do nothing without it. (Samuel Butler)
• Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. (Samuel Butler)

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