Quotes
Quotes - Butler
Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
The first thought is often the best. - Bishop Joseph Butler,
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
