Samuel Butler Quotes

British - Poet December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902

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

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

Thankful, Mirror, Grateful, Appearance

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

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

Ignorance, Pride, Arrogance, Vanity

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. Samuel Butler

Dog, Great, Yourself, Fool, You, Will

Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler

Life, Tired, Process, Long, Getting

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. - Samuel Butler

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. Samuel Butler

Life, Nature, Morning, Lightning, Human

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. Samuel Butler

Good, People, Good Company, Doing, Enjoy

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

Life, Art, Drawing, Conclusions

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

Life, Learning, Experience, Violin, Solo

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

Virtue, Only, Headache, Would, Precede

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

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

Romantic, Loved, Better, Lost, Never

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Samuel Butler
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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

Work, Music, Man, Architecture, Portrait

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. Samuel Butler

Time, Money, People, Never, Interest

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Samuel Butler

Truth, Bible, Nothing, May, Whole

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. Samuel Butler

Medical, Know, More, Baptism, Sacrament

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

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

Life, People, Enjoy, Never, Most, Main

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Samuel Butler

Truth, Truth Is, Rich, Divine, Precious

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. Samuel Butler

Good, Seeds, World, Half, Vices, Than

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. - Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. Samuel Butler

History, God, Past, Cannot, Alter

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

Best, Liar, Way, Go, Lying, Longest

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. Samuel Butler

People, Chance, Lucky, Expect, Get, Been

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Samuel Butler

Sarcasm, Argument, Irony, Neither

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. Samuel Butler

Nobody, Santa, Santa Claus, Shoots

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

Silence, Golden, Tact

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

Nature, Law, First, Self-Preservation

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

You, Look, Leap, Reap, Like, Before

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

Power, Medical, Healing, Physician, Same

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