Samuel Butler Quotes & Quotations

Samuel Butler Quotes

» The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

» Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

» People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

» If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.

» People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

» The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

» Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

» Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

» A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

» If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.

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