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Samuel Butler Quotes

«People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: amiable
«The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: briefly, private parts
«It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: offspring
«The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.»
«Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: bitter end
«Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Evil | Keywords: abounds, fouls, taint
«He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Life
«Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness»
«When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.»
Author: Samuel Butler