01c. 1640 ADI have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
02c. 1640 ADPeter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
03c. 1640 ADExploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
04c. 1640 ADA blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
05c. 1640 ADA definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
06c. 1640 ADWe are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
07c. 1640 ADWe pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
08c. 1640 ADThe world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
09c. 1640 ADMan is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
10c. 1640 ADIf 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 / quote ↗
11c. 1640 ADLogic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
12c. 1640 ADThe greatest 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 / quote ↗
13c. 1640 ADLoyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
14c. 1640 ADMention but the word "divinity," and our sense of the divine is clouded.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
15c. 1640 ADHaving, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism …Samuel Butler / quote ↗
16c. 1640 ADTheist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
17c. 1640 ADPeople are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
18c. 1640 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
20c. 1640 ADBooks should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
21c. 1640 ADI can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
22c. 1640 ADPeople in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practised.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
23c. 1640 ADConscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
