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Life is one long process of getting tired.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Life Long Getting

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Characters Pride Ignorance

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Work Men Some

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Samuel Butler

Tags: God Only Now

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Will He Own

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Beauty Make Give

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Business Life Know

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Samuel Butler

Tags: You Always Enough

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

Samuel Butler

Tags: Knowledge Want Thing

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Like Love Live

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Samuel Butler

Tags: More Than Would

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Samuel Butler

Tags: More Than Which

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

Samuel Butler

Tags: Truth Know How

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

Samuel Butler

Tags: Doing Right Places

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Samuel Butler

Tags: You Them Only

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Money Want Been

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

Samuel Butler

Tags: God Must Books

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

Samuel Butler

Tags: Power He Say

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Men Truth Fear

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Money Health Thing

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Who He Most

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

Tags: Power Much His

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Respect His Kind

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Samuel Butler

Tags: How Little Find

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Samuel Butler

Tags: About Will How

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Good Best God

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Samuel Butler

Tags: Men Death Who