Samuel Butler (b)

Some who had...

Some who had...

Some who had received a liberal education at the Colleges of Unreason, and taken the highest degrees in hypothetics,...

More about this quote...

All progress is...

All progress is...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its...

More about this quote...

Every man's work,...

Every man's work,...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait...

More about this quote...

When a man...

When a man...

When 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...

More about this quote...

The public buys...

The public buys...

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this...

More about this quote...

Genius is a...

Genius is a...

Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its...

More about this quote...

[Genius] is no...

[Genius] is no...

[Genius] is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most...

More about this quote...

Life is not...

Life is not...

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Source: Notebooks.
-- Samuel Butler...

More about this quote...

It is the...

It is the...

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Source:...

More about this quote...

As soon as...

As soon as...

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of...

More about this quote...

Though wisdom cannot...

Though wisdom cannot...

Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.

More about this quote...

Though analogy is...

Though analogy is...

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

More about this quote...

Is life worth...

Is life worth...

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not for a man.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Independence is essential...

Independence is essential...

Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.

Source:...

More about this quote...

The wish to...

The wish to...

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English...

More about this quote...

Genius is a...

Genius is a...

Genius is a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble.

Source: The...

More about this quote...

To live is...

To live is...

To live is like to love -- all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

More about this quote...

Life is the...

Life is the...

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

More about this quote...

Life is one...

Life is one...

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Source: Notebooks.
-- Samuel Butler...

More about this quote...

Youth is like...

Youth is like...

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the...

More about this quote...

Page 1 of 1


(C)2024 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA