Author: Samuel Butler

Quotes

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

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

- Samuel Butler

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

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

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

- Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

- Samuel Butler

The want of money is the root of all evil.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

- Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

- 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

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

- Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

- Samuel Butler

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