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. - Samuel Butler


Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way - who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with. - Samuel Butler


You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. - Samuel Butler


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


Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. - Samuel Butler


Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. - Samuel Butler


Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. - Samuel Butler


With what's going on right now, we all need to stand behind this man... We need to let them know it's wrong and we know it's wrong. - Samuel Butler


Why should not Conscience have a vacation. - Samuel Butler


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