Author Topic: ~ Samuel Butler Quotes ~ (Read 4088 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:11:47 AM »

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:13:29 AM »

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:14:25 AM »

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:15:41 AM »

All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:16:31 AM »

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:17:41 AM »

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:18:50 AM »

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:19:25 AM »

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:19:55 AM »

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practised.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:20:35 AM »

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten and to leave off fighting at once.

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:21:24 AM »

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:22:45 AM »

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:24:09 AM »

No matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:25:23 AM »

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** September 13, 2015, 11:26:44 AM »

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.

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