Samuel Butler Quotes

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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 sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
There is no bore like a clever bore.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Samuel Butler
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04 December, 1835
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18 June, 1902
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