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Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Fate Destiny

Friendship is like money easier made than kept.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Friends Money

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

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Hell Devil

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler History Historians

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Law Lawyers

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Liars Lying

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Liars Lying

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Medicine Sickness

What runs through a person like water through a sieve.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler One Day

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Ways Overcome Fear

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

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Praise Flattery

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Realistic Expectations

Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Self Confidence

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Self Reliance

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Tact Diplomacy

Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler This Moment

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Good Prayer World

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Man Sense Of Humor Him

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Wind Words Oaths

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Life Morning Human

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Law First

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Way Egg Hen

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Die Know Never

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

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Life Experience Violin

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Family Money Health

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler People Christian Seeing

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Liar Way Lying

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Enjoy People Company

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler God Past Historians

The history of art is the history of revivals.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Art The History Of

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler People Lucky Between

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Grateful Mirror Appearance

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Art Good Evil

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Want Dangerous Little

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Myself Me Hearing

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Power Healing Physician

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Know Baptism Sacrament

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Man Fool Lie

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

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Bible Nothing May

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

Samuel Butler Dog Fool Yourself
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