Samuel Butler Quotes

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• Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

  Samuel Butler

  Motivational

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4163, Delphi Classics

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  Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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  Integrity, Grateful, Character

  Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, William Morris (2014). “The Utopia MEGAPACK ®: 20 Classic Utopian and Dystopian Works”, p.31, Wildside Press LLC

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• All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

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  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 19

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• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

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  Love, Funny, Marriage

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

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  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Notebooks "Life" (1912)

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• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

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  Life, Art, Bad Ass

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.440, The Floating Press

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• Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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  Freedom, Book, Soul

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

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  Sunset, Fighting, Men

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

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  People, Religion, Band

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Educational, Learning

  Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

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• Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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  Life, Crazy, Bad Ass

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

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  Ignorance, Character, Pride

  Samuel Butler (1827). “The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose”, p.225

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• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

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  Life, Happiness, Fear

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Money

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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  Education, Past, History

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• 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.

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  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

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  Hate, Lying, Mind

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 19

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Music

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.57, Samuel Butler

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• Life is one long process of getting tired.

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  Love, Life, Tired

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

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  Fear, Halloween, Inspiration

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• Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

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  Life, Success, Music

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4082, Delphi Classics

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• An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

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  Funny, God, Im Sorry

  Notebooks ch. 14 (1912)

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• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

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  Love, Life, History

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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