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Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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More quotes by Samuel Butler
There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
Samuel Butler
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Samuel Butler
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Samuel Butler
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
Samuel Butler
If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
Samuel Butler
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
Samuel Butler
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel Butler
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
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
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler
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
They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.
Samuel Butler
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Butler
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Samuel Butler
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel Butler
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler
