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

Samuel Butler Quotes

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

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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, Grateful, Mirror

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, Architecture

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

Pride, Ignorance, Arrogance

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, Fool

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, Lost, Better

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

Life, Nature, Morning

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

Life, Learning, Experience

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

Virtue, Only, Headache

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler

Truth, Man, Fool

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

Good, Enjoy, People

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Samuel Butler

Sarcasm, Argument, Irony

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. Samuel Butler

Sword, Logic, Like

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, Better, Temper

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

Life, Art, Drawing

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

Best, Liar, Way

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. Samuel Butler

Men, Busy, Young

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

Truth, Bible, Nothing

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

History, God, Past

Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler

Life, Tired, Process

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

Nature, Law, First

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

Look, Reap, You

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, Healing, Medical

Be virtuous and you will be vicious. Samuel Butler

You, Will, Virtuous

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, World, Seeds

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. Samuel Butler

Religion, People, Christian

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind. - Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind. Samuel Butler

Communication, Words, Wind

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