Samuel Butler a Little Knowledge
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
Samuel ButlerA lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel ButlerNo mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Samuel ButlerLetters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel ButlerJustice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel ButlerOur minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Samuel ButlerIn law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Samuel ButlerThe history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Samuel ButlerAll progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel ButlerThere is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Samuel ButlerPeople are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel ButlerMost people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Samuel ButlerThe sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Samuel ButlerFaith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel ButlerEvery man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel ButlerLife is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Samuel ButlerA hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel ButlerIf you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Samuel ButlerIf the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel ButlerSilence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
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