“Samuel Butler”
“Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.”
-- Samuel Butler
“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.”
-- Samuel Butler
“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.”
-- Samuel Butler
“Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.”
-- Samuel Butler
“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
-- Samuel Butler
“The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.”
-- Samuel Butler
“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
-- Samuel Butler
“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.”
-- Samuel Butler
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
-- Samuel Butler
“If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.”
-- Samuel Butler
“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
-- Samuel Butler