A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.Samuel Butler
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.Samuel Butler
A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.Samuel Butler
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.Samuel Butler
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.Samuel Butler
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.Samuel Butler
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.Samuel Butler
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.Samuel Butler
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others.Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.Samuel Butler
An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.Samuel Butler
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.Samuel Butler
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred, and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.Samuel Butler
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
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.Samuel Butler
