-
Samuel Butler Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Samuel_Butler_by_Pieter_Borsseler.jpg/220px-Samuel_Butler_by_Pieter_Borsseler.jpg)
A poet and satirist. Samuel Butler (8 February 1612 – 25 September 1680) was a poet and satirist. Born in Strensham, Worcestershire and baptised 14 February 1613, he is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical burlesque poem on Puritanism entitled Hudibras.
Here are some famous quotes by Samuel Butler.
(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi228.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fee319%2FCAPSEC%2Farrow-down.gif&hash=68187670aa1ca20192157824d400b79f12b54105)
Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.
-
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
-
Life is one long process of getting tired.
-
Friendship is like money easier made than kept.
-
God cannot alter the past though historians can.
-
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
-
I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
-
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
-
Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.
-
What runs through a person like water through a sieve.
-
Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.
-
Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.
-
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
-
You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.
-
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.
-
Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.
-
If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
-
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
-
It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
-
Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.
-
I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.
-
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
-
We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.
-
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
-
All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
-
To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
-
The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them.
-
To live is like to love - all reason is against it and all healthy instinct for it.
-
Man unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
-
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
-
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
-
Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
-
The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.
-
All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others.
-
A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
-
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
-
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
-
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
-
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practised.
-
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten and to leave off fighting at once.
-
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
-
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
-
No matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.
-
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.
-
People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.
-
People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
-
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
-
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
-
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
-
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.
-
Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.
-
A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
-
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.