Samuel Butler Quotes

Samuel Butler
British Poet
Born: Dec 4, 1835
Died: Jun 18, 1902
God Life Man Money People You
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. Samuel Butler
Best Liar Lying Way He Smallest Longest Makes Go Who Amount
Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler
Life Tired Long Long Process Getting Process
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler
Life People Enjoy Aims Main Never Most Learned
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Samuel Butler
Nature Way Only Another Making Egg Hen
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. Samuel Butler
Great You Fool Yourself Dog Will Too Pleasure Only Great Pleasure He Make Him Himself Scold May
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Samuel Butler
Work Music Man Architecture Every Else Pictures Himself Always Anything Anything Else Whether Literature Portrait
Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Samuel Butler
Nature Law First First Law Self-Preservation
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Samuel Butler
Food Man Animal Eat Eats Only Remain He Until Terms Friendly Victims Them
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. Samuel Butler
Life Morning Lightning Dew Human Flash Human Life
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler
Life Learning Experience Solo Like Instrument Goes Public Playing Violin
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler
Life Art Drawing Insufficient Conclusions Premises Sufficient
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. Samuel Butler
People Sense Live Rarely Atmosphere Uncommon Aristocratic Academic Reach Common Common Sense Them
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Samuel Butler
Argument Neither Irony Sarcasm
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
God Better Impossible Childish Define More Only Know Him How Deny Which Realize Should Ever
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. Samuel Butler
Hate Mind Lying Inaccuracy
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. Samuel Butler
Nobody Shoots Santa Santa Claus
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler
Progress Live Every Part Beyond Organism Income Based Innate Universal Desire
In law, nothing is certain but the expense. Samuel Butler
Legal Law Nothing Expense Certain
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. Samuel Butler
God Devil Division Labor Effort After Specialization
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. Samuel Butler
Life Art Science Exact
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler
Truth Man Fool Lie Sense Tell Some Know Well How Any Requires
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. Samuel Butler
Myself Me Fear Static Prevents Hearing
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler
Friendship Money Made Easier Like Than Kept
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come. Samuel Butler
Good Evil Come Doing Doing Good May Such A Thing Thing
Let every man be true and every god a liar. Samuel Butler
God Man Liar Be True Every True Every Man
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Samuel Butler
Man Bore Bored More Contemptible Himself Than Who Even Lets
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