Samuel Butler Quotes

  • God cannot alter the past, though historians can.Upload to Facebook
    God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
    ~ Samuel Butler
  • A hen is only an egg's way of making other eggs.
    ~ Samuel Butler
  • Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.Upload to Facebook
    Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
    ~ Samuel Butler
  • 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
  • Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.Upload to Facebook
    Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.
    ~ Samuel Butler
  • Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.Upload to Facebook
    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
  • 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
  • Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
    ~ Samuel Butler
  • Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.Upload to Facebook
    Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
    ~ Samuel Butler
  • We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
    ~ Samuel Butler
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