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British
-
Poet
December 4
, 1835 -
June 18
, 1902
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
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
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
Romantic
,
Loved
,
Better
,
Lost
,
Never
Top 10
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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
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
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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