Samuel Butler Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

42 Famous Quotes by Samuel Butler
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“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”
History Quotes
“Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.”
Christianity Quotes
“He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.”
Agreement Quotes
“A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.”
Lawyers Quotes
“Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.”
Life Quotes
“Life is one long process of getting tired.”
Life Quotes
“Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
Life Quotes
“All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.”
Life Quotes
“To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.”
Love Quotes
“I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.”
Lying Quotes
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Lying Quotes
“We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.”
Lying Quotes
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.”
Progress Quotes
“If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.”
Reason Quotes
“The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
“Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.”
Tact Quotes
“Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.”
Waste Quotes
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