81 quotes by Samuel Butler

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.” — Samuel Butler

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“The history of art is the history of revivals.” — Samuel Butler

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“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.” — Samuel Butler

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“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.” — Samuel Butler

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“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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“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

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“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.” — Samuel Butler

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“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

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“If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.” — Samuel Butler

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“If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.” — Samuel Butler

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“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

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“Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.” — Samuel Butler

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“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.” — Samuel Butler

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“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

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“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” — Samuel Butler

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“You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.” — Samuel Butler

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“What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.” — Samuel Butler

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“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.” — Samuel Butler

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“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.” — Samuel Butler

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“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.” — Samuel Butler

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“Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.” — Samuel Butler

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“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.” — Samuel Butler

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“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

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“Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.” — Samuel Butler

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“God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.” — Samuel Butler

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