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

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

Life, Nature, Morning, Human, Lightning

Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler

Life, Tired, Process, Long, Getting

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

Good, People, Doing, Good Company, Enjoy

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

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

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

Best, Liar, Way, Lying, Go, Longest

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

Life, Art, Drawing, Conclusions

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

Life, Music, Feeling, Like, Instinct

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

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, Our, Who

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. Samuel Butler

Santa, Santa Claus, Nobody, Shoots

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

Dreams, Good, Prayer, World, Saying, Bad

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

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Samuel Butler

Sarcasm, Argument, Irony, Neither

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' Samuel Butler

Power, Man, Name, Say, Test, They Say

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

Friendship, Money, Like, Easier, Than

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler

Life, Business, Man, Enjoy, Know, Except

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

Justice, Innocence, She, Sometimes

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. Samuel Butler

Good, People, Thought, Care, Clever

All truth is not to be told at all times. Samuel Butler

Truth, Truth Is, Times

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

Life, Art, Science, Exact

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. Samuel Butler

Love, Fear, Truth, Men, Cold, She

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