Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game; True as a dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon.Samuel Butler
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.Samuel Butler
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.Samuel Butler
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?Samuel Butler
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.Samuel Butler
No matter how ill we may be, nor how low we may have fallen, we should not change identity with any other person.Samuel Butler
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.Samuel Butler
Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.Samuel Butler
People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.Samuel Butler
People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.Samuel Butler
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.Samuel Butler
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.Samuel Butler
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.Samuel Butler
