Samuel Butler Quotes

The history of art is the history of revivals.

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

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

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows

Spontaneity is only a term for man`s ignorance of the gods

To be at all is to be religious more or less