Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel ButlerBrigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Samuel ButlerThe major sin is the sin of being born.
Samuel ButlerPleasure, after all, is a safer guide than either right or duty. For hard as it is to know what gives us pleasure, right and duty are often still harder to distinguish and, if we go wrong with them, will lead us into just as sorry a plight as a mistaken opinion concerning pleasure. When men burn their fingers through following after pleasure they find out their mistake and get to see where they have gone wrong more easily than when they have burnt them through following after a fancied duty, or a fancied idea concerning right virtue. The devil, in fact, when he dresses himself in angel's clothes, can only be detected by experts of exceptional skill, and so often does he adopt this disguise that it is hardly safe to be seen talking to an angel at all, and prudent people will follow after pleasure as a more homely but more respectable and on the whole much more trustworthy guide.
Samuel ButlerYoung people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel ButlerTruth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.
Samuel ButlerTag: marriage
I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was a sufficient proof that He disapproved of it, or at any rate that he did not set much store by it nor wish to encourage it.
Samuel ButlerTag: dilletantism onhumbuggery
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel ButlerThey say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?
Samuel ButlerLet us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel ButlerTag: moderation fatalism philosophicaloutlookonlife
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