Samuel Butler Quotes
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Let every man be true and every god a liar.