Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Samuel Butler
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
Farmer
Novelist
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Translator
Writer
Notts
Cellarius
Look
Cultured
Firsts
Suspicion
Looks
Second
First
Hand
Enough
Upon
Men
Culture
Hands
Able
More quotes by Samuel Butler
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Samuel Butler
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler
The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
Samuel Butler
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
Samuel Butler
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
Samuel Butler
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler
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.
Samuel Butler
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
Samuel Butler
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Samuel Butler
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Samuel Butler
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
Samuel Butler
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler
