Seth Messenger : Samuel Butler's quotes

Samuel Butler said :

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Samuel Butler
(Quotes)
#6443
The man is the unique animal that can remain on good terms with his victims until it devours.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6444
The body: a pair of tweezers attached to a bellows and a kettle, all mounted on stilts.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6445
Those who can't close my eyes when needed don't know watch.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6446
There is not a single virtue which has not some alloy of vice; and little vice, or even no vice, which has a small grain of virtue in him.

Samuel Butler
(Ainsi va toute chair)


#6447
Living is like love: the reason is against, the instinct is for.

Samuel Butler
(Ainsi va toute chair, 1903)


#6448
Memory, it's like the echo that continues to pass after that the sound is off.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6449
The prayers are for men that are the dolls for children. They lack usefulness or pleasure, but it's hard to take them seriously.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6450
Honesty is not to never fly, but to know how far you can fly, and how to make good use of what we fly.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6451
After spending years strive to be accurate, we need without even so much to discover when and how to be inaccurate.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6452
Faith is not a function, because in the final analysis, it is based on the reason. The reason is not a Foundation, because it is based on faith.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6453
Public opinion: the public buys his opinions as he buys his meat or is bring his milk, according to the principle that it is cheaper to have a cow.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6454
The oaths are words, and words are that of the wind.

Samuel Butler
(Hudibras)


#6455
As the East and West, extreme shame and the extreme glory are based.

Samuel Butler
(Hudibras)


#6456
If the devil is not always as black that is painted, is God always as white?

Samuel Butler
(Nouveaux voyages en Erewhon)


#6457
Know God better, isn't that better understand how it is impossible to ever know. I cannot say which of the two is the more childish, to deny or try to define it.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6458
Define, is surrounded by a wall of words a wasteland of ideas.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6459
The advantage of doing his own eulogy is that we can add exactly where you want.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6460
There is no marriage in heaven. Probably to avoid disturbing the bliss of places.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6461
In all times and all countries, it is the woman who decides whether the world should a fault to forgive or not to forgive.

Samuel Butler
(Nouveaux voyages en Erewhon)


#6462
Even if you're a fool with your dog, not only it will not scold, but he will also pass for a fool.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6463
What is the most pleasant with a dog that is we can fool around with him and not only it will make you no reproach, but he's going to be silly.

Samuel Butler
(Notebooks)


#6464
It is cheaper to buy his milk to have a cow.

Samuel Butler
(Ainsi va toute chair)


#6465
He was born silly and had greatly developed his natural gifts.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6466
Each man is immortal: he knows that he will die, but he would never know he's dead.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6467
Death is just a trivial incident that lasts only a moment. A case where one has more fear than harm.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6468
The scholarship or life, the thief leaves you the choice. The woman requires both.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6469
Regardless of the thing we hate, as long as we hate something.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6470
Painters must not forget that as a general rule the eye is a good body, without malice, gullible, always ready to add faith to what he told, if she told with enough insurance.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6471
The world is perhaps not particularly wise, but in fact wisdom, we don't know anything better.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6472
Whenever we lie to someone, we make the compliment to recognize his superiority.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6473
All progress is based on desire, universal and innate in any body, to live by spending more than their income.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6474
Sin is like a mountain that comes in two different aspects, depending on whether you see before you arrive there, or after.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6475
Almost all of the lizards have lost their tails to the time they reach the middle of their lives. It is the same of most of the men.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6476
The issue of marriage and celibacy is that the question of whether it is better to be damaged in a way than the other.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6477
There is no cause of more common error than the search for absolute truth.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6478
The truth is like religion: she's only two enemies, the too much and the too little.

Samuel Butler
(Nouveaux voyages en Erewhon)


#6479
Any fool can tell the truth, but must be a man a little supposed to know well lie.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6480
The vice and virtue are as life and death, or spirit and matter: things that cannot exist without be defined by their contrary

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6481
A chicken is only the way to an egg to another egg.

Samuel Butler
(Vie et habitude)


#6482
God and the devil represent a commendable effort on specialization in the division of labour.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6483
An apology for the Devil: it must be noted that in this case we have heard that one of the parties. It is God who has written all the books.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6484
The best liar is one that served the same lie as long as possible.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6485
Any fool can paint a picture, but be smart to sell.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6486
Lying doesn't bother me. But I hate inaccuracy.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6487
Two are better than one: the one who wrote this did not know my sisters.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6488
God can't change the past. Historians, Yes.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6489
Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.

Samuel Butler
(Source inconnue)


#6490
Silence is a virtue that makes us pleasant to our fellow human beings.

Samuel Butler
(Erewhon)


#6491
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


#6492
Living is like love: any reason is against, and any strong instinct is for.

Samuel Butler
(Carnets)


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The content of this page was last u p d a t ed on Saturday January 7, 2023.
It was then 18:54:06 (Paris time, France, planet Earth - Known Universe).
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