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Samuel Butler

  • Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • Birds are taken with pipes that imitate their own voices, and men with those sayings that are most agreeable to their own opinions... Samuel Butler {view}
  • Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t... Samuel Butler {view}
  • There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of... Samuel Butler {view}
  • A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why... Samuel Butler {view}
  • Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat... Samuel Butler {view}
  • The want of money is the root of all evil.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • Opinions have vested interests just as men have.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • The money men make lives after them.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure /tangible material prosperity in this world /is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation... Samuel Butler {view}
  • For what is worth in anything, But so much money as 'twill bring... Samuel Butler {view}
  • Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.... Samuel Butler {view}
  • Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both... Samuel Butler {view}
  • I am not in Fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower... Samuel Butler {view}