Quotes by Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

English poet

Lived from: 1835 - 1902

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 4 december 1835 Died: 18 june 1902

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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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  • 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.
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  • If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
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  • If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virue.
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  • 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.
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  • If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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  • In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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  • In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
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  • Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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  • It costs a lot of money to die comfortably.
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  • It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
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  • It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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  • It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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  • It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
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  • It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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  • It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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  • It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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  • Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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  • Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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  • Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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