3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Mr. 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.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Let 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.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler A 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.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler The 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.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
