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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a059cfa | Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| e71fde8 | If a man would get hold of the public era, he must pay, marry, or fight. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 96d5c4b | Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 941552a | The true laws of God are the laws of our own well-being. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 7390d79 | An energy is a soul -- a something working in us. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 7cf6f28 | Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| bde9b52 | Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| f56f6c7 | Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| ced9145 | Ideas] are like shadows -- substantial enough until we try to grasp them. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 7f7cba6 | A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| b12b703 | Nothing is so cruel as to try and force a man beyond his natural pace. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 9d43016 | If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| ceb432b | All men can do great things, if they know what great things are. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 21d4841 | I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| aaf52c4 | It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 4469eec | Time is the only true purgatory. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 76051b2 | He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| ed3eeb2 | A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 9cee8b9 | The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 5e14942 | Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| bfc27ec | To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| ae53c90 | To live is like to love -- all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 0da3056 | Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 7c6ee20 | Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 17c14e7 | Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 1c2d84b | I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 87c4209 | You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 48cc5c9 | There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 9927233 | The world will, in the end, follow only those who have despised as well as served it. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 9ee53a8 | They were gentlemen in the full sense of the word; and what has one not said in saying this? | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| c48a294 | Youth is like spring, an overpraised season. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 1ae0d56 | Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| a5e68e2 | The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 1ee7e1a | An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. | Samuel Butler (novelist) | ||
| 455c727 | A barren superfluity of words. | Samuel Garth | ||
| 0ad2e1d | Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,And death in ambush lay in every pill. | Samuel Garth | ||
| 090248c | Harsh words, though pertinent, uncouth appear:None please the fancy, who offend the ear. | Samuel Garth | ||
| 4a5eba5 | I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. | Samuel Garth | ||
| cb66399 | Hard was their lodging, homely was their food;For all their luxury was doing good. | Samuel Garth | ||
| 8e31463 | God is the only sure foundation on which the mind can rest. | Samuel I. Prime | ||
| ae260c4 | Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer. | Samuel I. Prime | ||
| 1c76495 | Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other. | Samuel I. Prime | ||
| d8904d8 | Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest | Samuel Johnson | ||
| 2125259 | This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed -- Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed. | Samuel Johnson |