Quotes by Samuel Butler

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to...

#Mind

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely...

#Marriage

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

#Life, #Music

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a...

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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also...

#Samuel Butler

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon...

#Samuel Butler

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

#Samuel Butler

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened...

#Samuel Butler

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat...

#Samuel Butler

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without...

#Samuel Butler

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of...

#Samuel Butler

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

#Samuel Butler