Samuel Butler Quotations

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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Writing]

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Writing]

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [History]

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Perspective]

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Perspective]

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Experience]

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Conformity]

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Books]

I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Honesty]

The Bible may be the truth but it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Religion]

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Money]

For money has a power above The stars and fate, to manage love.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Money]

For what is worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring?
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Money]

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Money]

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Money]

It costs a lot of money to die comfortably.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Money]

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Money]

Money has a power above. The stars and fate, to manage love: Whose arrows, learned poets hold, That never miss, are tipped with gold.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Money]

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money - or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Money]

The want of money is the root of all evil.
	- Samuel Butler	more quotations on [Money]

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