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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once - Samuel Butler Quotes

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. - Samuel Butler Quotes

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. - Samuel Butler Quotes

People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' - Samuel Butler Quotes

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

British Poet Literary

The history of art is the history of revivals - Samuel Butler Quotes

The history of art is the history of revivals

Art

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler Quotes

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

Animals British Poet

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat - Samuel Butler Quotes

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat

Through perils both of wind and limb, Through thick and thin she followed him - Samuel Butler Quotes

Through perils both of wind and limb, Through thick and thin she followed him

Still amorous, and fond, and billing, / Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Still amorous, and fond, and billing, / Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

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. - Samuel Butler Quotes

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.

Animals British Poet

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little draughty. - Samuel Butler Quotes

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little draughty.

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground - Samuel Butler Quotes

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself - Samuel Butler Quotes

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. - Samuel Butler Quotes

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room / The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; / Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, / Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth: / O God! O Montreal! - Samuel Butler Quotes

Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room / The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; / Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, / Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth: / O God! O Montreal!

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

British Poet Future

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows - Samuel Butler Quotes

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last - Samuel Butler Quotes

Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. - Samuel Butler Quotes

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

He ne'er considered it, as loath To look a gift-horse in the mouth - Samuel Butler Quotes

He ne'er considered it, as loath To look a gift-horse in the mouth

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the - Samuel Butler Quotes

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the

Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily - Samuel Butler Quotes

Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. - Samuel Butler Quotes

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

British Poet People

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. - Samuel Butler Quotes

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched - Samuel Butler Quotes

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched

If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes - Samuel Butler Quotes

If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes

Bach

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper. - Samuel Butler Quotes

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.

Twas Presbyterian true blue. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Twas Presbyterian true blue.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason - Samuel Butler Quotes

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year. - Samuel Butler Quotes

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. - Samuel Butler Quotes

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

It 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 Quotes

It 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

God

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. - Samuel Butler Quotes

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

British Poet God

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

British Poet Compromise

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday. - Samuel Butler Quotes

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

Preachers And Preaching

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule. - Samuel Butler Quotes

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. - Samuel Butler Quotes

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

He could distinguish, and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. / On either which he would dispute, / Confute, change hands, and still confute. - Samuel Butler Quotes

He could distinguish, and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. / On either which he would dispute, / Confute, change hands, and still confute.

Then spare the rod and spoil the child. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness - Samuel Butler Quotes

Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness

For things said false and never meant, Do oft prove true by accident - Samuel Butler Quotes

For things said false and never meant, Do oft prove true by accident

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.

For every why he had a wherefore - Samuel Butler Quotes

For every why he had a wherefore

Have always been at daggers-drawing, / And one another clapper-clawing. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Have always been at daggers-drawing, / And one another clapper-clawing.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler Quotes

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Art British Poet

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield. Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away, And by a prudent flight and cunning save a life, which valour could not, from - Samuel Butler Quotes

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield. Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away, And by a prudent flight and cunning save a life, which valour could not, from

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