Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Samuel Butler Quotes
1835–1902 England
Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902) was a British satirist, most famous for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.
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Also known as: Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
186 quotes
Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
The Fair Haven (1873)
Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
Erewhon (1872)
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Life and Habit (1877)
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.
The Iliad of Homer (1898)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Butler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.