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“Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.”
Source: The Essential Samuel Butler
“Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition
“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime”
“Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.”
“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”
Source: The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose
“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition
Source: The Way of All Flesh
“It is tact that is golden, not silence.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
“Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.”
Source: The Utopia MEGAPACK ®: 20 Classic Utopian and Dystopian Works
“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
Source: The Essential Samuel Butler
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
“Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.”
“If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.”
“If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.”
Source: Notebooks
“Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.”
Source: Poetical works: With the life of the author
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.”
Source: Notebooks
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks
Source: The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler
“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.”
“From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.”
Source: Erewhon Revisited
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition