Samuel Butler Quotes

Quotes by Author	Quotes by Subject	Poets	Poetry by Topic	Submit A Quote
Literature	Books	Videos	Search

	Sarah Palin Quotes and Videos
	Get Poem of the day
	Get Quote of the day
	Search Quotes
	Search Poems
	Top 1000 Quotes
	Top 500 Poems

	Quotes by Author
	Quotes by Subject
	Top 60 Quote Authors
	Top 40 Quote Subjects

	Emily Dickinson
	Walt Whitman
	Langston Hughes
	Edgar Allan Poe
	Robert Frost
	William Blake
	MORE POETS...

	Love & Romance
	Life
	Nature
	Spiritual
	Death
	War
	MORE TOPICS...

	Dr. King
	Abraham Lincoln

	Shakespeare Plays
	Mark Twain
	Charles Dickens
	Jane Austen
	H. G. Wells
	Sir Conan Doyle
	MORE AUTHORS...

	Sarah Palin
	Barack Obama
	Hillary Clinton
	John McCain
	Mark Twain
	Abraham Lincoln
	Dr. King
	Oprah Winfrey
	Ralph Waldo Emerson
	MORE AUTHORS...

	Friendship
	Happiness
	Hope & Dreams
	Humor
	Life
	Love & Romance
	Money
	American Presidents
	Success
	Truth
	War
	Wisdom
	MORE SUBJECTS...

SEARCH BY

QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Samuel Butler

Add This Page To Favourites

Add to Facebook |

| Stumble This

Quotes By author - Starting with S - Samuel Butler

There are 95 quotes for the author Samuel Butler

Quotations 21 to 40 of 95 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

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

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

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

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

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

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Quotations 21 to 40 of 95
Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5

	Poem of the day (New!!!)
	Quote of the day (New!!!)

Home | Privacy Policy and Disclaimer | Advertise | Contact Us | Report Errors

Copyright © 2003 - 2008 - QuotesandPoem.com. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission and prior consent of QuotesandPoem.com