Quotes By Samuel Butler

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

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

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.