Samuel ButlerGenius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds ✨ Notebooks (1912) ch. 11351Reading
Samuel ButlerIf the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. ✨ The Guardian view on drinking culture: statistics, myths and alcohol abuse, www.theguard… ▶373Hope
Samuel ButlerThere is such a thing as doing good that evil may come. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Notebooks352Reading
Samuel ButlerBrigands demand your money or your life; women require both.341Life
Samuel ButlerMan is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. ✨ Samuel Butler (2008). The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easy… ▶363Reading
Samuel ButlerSome men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Samuel Butler's notebooks375LoveReadingTruth
Samuel ButlerMarriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Notebooks: Selections E… ▶364ReadingThought
Samuel ButlerAll progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. ✨ Notebooks (1912) ch. 1353Reading
Samuel ButlerThe great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. ✨ Notebooks (1912) c… ▶342Reading
Samuel ButlerThe man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ✨ Samuel Butler (2015). Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated), p.935, Delphi Classi… ▶343Humanity
Samuel ButlerWords are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. ✨ Samue… ▶355ReadingTruth
Samuel ButlerWhat is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. ✨ Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). The Note-books of Samue… ▶333HopeReading
Samuel ButlerThe most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Samuel Butle… ▶322HumanityReading
Samuel ButlerWhen a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. ✨ Samuel Butler (2015). Delphi C… ▶334Politics
Samuel ButlerMen are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. ✨ Samuel Butler (2015). Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated), p.4298, Delphi Classics367Truth
Samuel ButlerAll philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ✨ Samuel Butler (2015). Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated… ▶378Time
Samuel ButlerOur minds want clothes as much as our bodies. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill301DeathReadingThought
Samuel ButlerLying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. ✨ Samuel Butler (2008). The Note-b… ▶367Reading
Samuel ButlerSensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime ✨ TheWay of All Flesh ch. 24 (1903)312DeathHumanityLife
Samuel ButlerThe voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. ✨ Samuel Butler (2015). Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated), p.4367, Del… ▶302Truth
Samuel ButlerMan is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. ✨ 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said. Book by Robert Byrne, 1988.335HumorPoliticsReading
Samuel ButlerNobody shoots at Santa Claus.291Philosophy
Samuel ButlerMy main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. ✨ Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). The Note-books of Samuel … ▶335HumanityReading
Samuel ButlerParents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. ✨ Notebooks (1912)313HumanityReading
Samuel ButlerFriendship is like money, easier made than kept. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Samuel Butler's notebooks335Reading
Samuel ButlerA hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. ✨ Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)357Life
Samuel ButlerAutumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. ✨ Samuel Butler (2015). Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated), p.425, … ▶303Hope
Samuel ButlerAnd, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. ✨ The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Sup… ▶325Reading
Samuel ButlerYou can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. ✨ Samuel Butler (2015). Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated), p.4356, Delphi Classics292Hope
Samuel ButlerNeither irony or sarcasm is argument.358Reflection
