Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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
Like
Accounts
Neither
Religion
Hate
Business
Science
Love
More quotes by Samuel Butler
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
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
Samuel Butler
Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
Samuel Butler
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel Butler
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler
Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Samuel Butler
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
Samuel Butler
The course of true anything never does run smooth.
Samuel Butler
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Samuel Butler
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
Samuel Butler
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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
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
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Samuel Butler
