Author: Samuel Butler

Quotes

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

- Samuel Butler

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.

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

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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

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

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

- Samuel Butler

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

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

- Samuel Butler

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

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

- Samuel Butler

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

- Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

- Samuel Butler

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

- Samuel Butler

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