Quote

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Samuel Butler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Besetting
Idleness
Sin
Work
Men

More quotes by Samuel Butler

Image
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
Image
Lying 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
Image
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler
Image
Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
Samuel Butler
Image
Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Samuel Butler
Image
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler
Image
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler
Image
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
Image
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 a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler
Image
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler
Image
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel Butler
Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Samuel Butler
Image
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
Samuel Butler
Image
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
Samuel Butler
Image
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Samuel Butler
Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel Butler
Image
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Samuel Butler
Image
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
Image
God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.
Samuel Butler
Image
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler