Samuel Butler

Quote link. Other quotes about: making: "A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live: "All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books god book devil: "An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth man: "Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work man music: "Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth rich: "For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money: "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."
Quote link.: "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: past: "God cannot alter the past, but historians can."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love devil: "God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is"
Quote link.: "He that is down can fall no lower."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hate mind: "I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find little: "If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money evil love: "It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost never love: "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lies: "It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never music rule: "Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."
Quote link.: "Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science art: "Life is not an exact science, it is an art."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art: "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sun game: "Loyalty is still the same,Whether it win or lose the gameTrue as a dial to the sun,Although it be not shined upon."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend: "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
Quote link.: "Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right: "The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small: "The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."
Quote link. Other quotes about: run: "The course of true anything does not run smooth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first life rule: "There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work man: "To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason live love: "To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth."
Quote link.: "What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again Two hundred more."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die: "When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing little: "You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."

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