01c. 1640 ADEvery one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
02c. 1640 ADIt is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
03c. 1640 ADThe test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
04c. 1640 ADWhen you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
05c. 1640 ADIf life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
06c. 1640 ADLife is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
07c. 1640 ADLife is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
08c. 1640 ADThe tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
09c. 1640 ADThere is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
10c. 1640 ADLife is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
12c. 1640 ADYou can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
14c. 1640 ADA friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
15c. 1640 ADAll animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
16c. 1640 ADAll animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
17c. 1640 ADIt does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
18c. 1640 ADAn apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
20c. 1640 ADIt has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
21c. 1640 ADAll progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
22c. 1640 ADTo live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
23c. 1640 ADThe public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
24c. 1640 ADA lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
