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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  • Life is one long process of getting tired.
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  • Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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  • Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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  • 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.
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  • Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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  • Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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  • Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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  • Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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  • Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
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  • Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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  • One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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  • Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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  • Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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  • People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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  • People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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  • People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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  • Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
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  • Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
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  • Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
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  • Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
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