Samuel Butler may refer to:
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.