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, Grateful, Mirror, Be Grateful

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

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

Good, People, Good Company, Doing, Enjoy

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

Life, Nature, Morning, Lightning, Human

Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler

Life, Tired, Process, Long, Getting

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

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

Life, Learning, Experience, Violin, Solo

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. Samuel Butler

Santa, Santa Claus, Nobody, Shoots

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, Unlucky

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

Best, Liar, Lying, Way, Go, Longest

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

Life, Art, Drawing, Conclusions

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, Physician, Same

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

Life, Love, Live, Healthy, Reason, Like

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

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

Nature, Law, First, Self-Preservation

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. Samuel Butler

Life, Music, Feeling, Instinct, Like

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. Samuel Butler

Sailor, Old, Well, Ancient, Would, Had

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

Virtue, Headache, Only, Would, Precede

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. Samuel Butler

Justice, Innocence, She, Sometimes

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. Samuel Butler

Love, Best, Done, Easy, Forgive, Us

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. Samuel Butler

Thoughts, Spring, Us, Actions, Who, Our

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things. Samuel Butler

Good, Dreams, Prayer, World, Saying, Bad

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. Samuel Butler

Man, Temper, Tone, Won, Himself, Which

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

Life, Science, Art, Exact

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

Better, Temper, Controversy, Point, Most

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