Samuel Butler Quotes

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler

Life, Enjoy, Learned

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler

Valentine's Day, Lost, Loved

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler

Ignorance, Pride, Arrogance

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler

Best, Liar, Makes

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

Food, Friendly, Until

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler

Nature, Another, Making

It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler

Silence, Golden, Tact

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

Experience, Life, Learning

Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler

Life, Tired, Long

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butler

Life, Art, Science

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler

Love, Live, Reason

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Samuel Butler

Grateful, Mirror, Appearance

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler

Life, Art, Drawing

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler

Money, Friendship, Kept

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler

Point, Temper, Dispute

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler

Music, Work, Else

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Samuel Butler

Divorce, Church, Christ

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Samuel Butler

Funny, Children, Parents

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler

Money, School, Children

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.
Samuel Butler

Medical, Power, Healing

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
Samuel Butler

Success, Death, Bored

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler

Virtue, Headache, Alcoholism

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler

Before, Reap, Leap

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.
Samuel Butler

Bad, Forget, Friend

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: December 4, 1835

Died: June 18, 1902

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