Samuel Butler Quotes & Quotations

Samuel Butler Quotes

» There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

» All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

» It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

» A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

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

» Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

» Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.

» Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

» He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

» It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

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