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Samuel Butler on Anniversary

1835–1902 England

← All quotes by Samuel Butler

7 quotes

A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them.

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)

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)

To love God is to have good health, good looks, good sense, experience, a kindly nature and a fair balance of cash in hand.

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage—but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

The Way of All Flesh (1903)

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Erewhon (1872)

It is love that alone gives life, and the truest life is that which we live not in ourselves but vicariously in others, and with which we have no concern. Our concern is so to order ourselves that we may be of the number of them that enter into life — although we know it not.

Ramblings In Cheapside (1890)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Butler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.