01c. 1640 ADMr. 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1640 ADA sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
04c. 1640 ADHuman life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
06c. 1640 ADLet 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 / quote ↗
07c. 1640 ADTo himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
08c. 1640 ADThe seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
09c. 1640 ADPeople in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
10c. 1640 ADThe best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
11c. 1640 ADPeople are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
14c. 1640 ADPeople are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
15c. 1640 ADLet us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
16c. 1640 ADThe youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
17c. 1640 ADA little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
18c. 1640 ADA physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
19c. 1640 ADVaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
20c. 1640 ADThe Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
21c. 1640 ADWhat is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
22c. 1640 ADMarriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?Samuel Butler / quote ↗
23c. 1640 ADA man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
24c. 1640 ADTo give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.Samuel Butler / quote ↗
