01c. 1640 ADWe pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
04c. 1640 ADTo live is like to love - all reason is against it and all healthy instinct for it.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
05c. 1640 ADMan unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
06c. 1640 ADAny fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
07c. 1640 ADI reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
08c. 1640 ADAll progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
11c. 1640 ADAll philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
12c. 1640 ADThe advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
13c. 1640 ADAll progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
14c. 1640 ADNo matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
16c. 1640 ADThe foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
17c. 1640 ADOne of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten and to leave off fighting at once.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
18c. 1640 ADWe grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
19c. 1640 ADSilence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
20c. 1640 ADPeople care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
21c. 1640 ADOur latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
22c. 1640 ADTo put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
23c. 1640 ADIt is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
24c. 1640 ADA virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
