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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.


Samuel Butler

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CARL N. DEGLER because it is true; had he not said it, it would have been misleading.
YASSER ARAFAT I would say it is utterly incomplete and grossly misleading,
KEN STARR The headline is very misleading on this one.
COURTNEY ANDERSON The retail sales report is a little bit misleading,
ETHAN HARRIS All signs are misleading
YIDDISH PROVERB Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding ...
OSAMA BIN LADEN This lingerie is misleading the public because Madonna is in no way affiliated with it.
LIZ ROSENBERG In the 16 years I've come here, I have never heard so much uninformed, misleading and distorted test...
BOB JOHNSON Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done t...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT The message that everyone should sign up is a misleading message and a dangerous message.
BOB HAYES Some misleading reports have incorrectly characterized EPA's repeal of the two percent oxygen requir...
BRIAN JENNINGS I don't think the messenger is what potentially presents a 'good' or 'misleading' message. It's the ...
BILLY TAUZIN Our whole lives are lived in a tangle of telling, not telling, misleading, allowing to know, conceal...
GERMAINE GREER Not all doorway page techniques are misleading users.
MARKUS SAGEMANN It's a very disingenuous, misleading pleading,
JAMES WALLACE The exemplary issue should not be based on letter grades. Letter grades are very misleading.
DEBRA ROBINSON The bar told me by calling myself 'The Heavy Hitter,' it was false and misleading because it was sta...
GLEN LERNER steer clear of misleading and irrelevant hierarchical representations of non-hierarchical terrorist ...
EVAN KOHLMANN It's misleading. It should be in the contract.
LOUIS AQUILA We ... would like consumers to know it's false and very misleading.
KAREN COBB So many old landmarks have been set in motion that they have become misleading as guides. Newness ha...
MAX WAYS As a lawyer, David Pepper should follow the law. We feel it is a misleading commercial. He is not th...
BRAD GREENBERG For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The Internet is a veritable minefield of false and misleading claims.
BRUCE SILVERGLADE It is an absolutely black-and-white case. It is a clear example of misleading parliament.
HUGH ROBERTSON You have ignorant people on these shows misleading the public,
JOE NICKELL All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
SAMUEL BUTLER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY While much of the criticism is factually incorrect or misleading, it is undoubtedly having a politic...
MACQUARIE EQUITIES Oh, I think they're completely misleading. I think they present misleading information on almost eve...
ERIC MURRAY The McJob tag is misleading, and demeaning to our staff and franchisees.
STEVE EASTERBROOK I don't think we can take out any ads, ... because it would be misleading. We don't have any tickets...
EMANUEL AZENBERG At best, this message is misleading, and at worst, downright deceptive.
BRIAN BAILEY Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES It's not a blind trust. I think that's a complete misnomer, an inaccurate or at least a misleading t...
KATHLEEN CLARK Nothing is as misleading as time – just think about it and you've already gotten old.
ERALDO BANOVAC There's a rumor floating around that we're misleading the public,
BARRY MILLER These included creating misleading error messages and introducing technical bypasses that deprived Q...
AVADIS TEVANIAN Such falsehoods and misleading statements, made under oath before Congress, are shocking, ... It cle...
KATHLEEN BLANCO The State Department's memo is full of misleading and irrelevant arguments. It fails to make the cas...
KAREN ORENSTEIN Statistics can be misleading. The only stat that counts is the score at the end of the game.
MIKE HOLMGREN They allow you the wide shots so the shots are very misleading (shots on goal statistics). It's hard...
MIKE MODANO Wait a minute. They may be misleading, but they are his answers, ... You may finish, Judge Roberts.
ARLEN SPECTER Every day one or all of the candidates launch false or misleading attacks against Mayor Bloomberg, ....
STU LOESER I saw a brochure at a meeting and thought it was misleading. Some may think we are doing it with the...
BOB SAPP We are concerned that speculation reported in the press may be misleading the market regarding our i...
ALAN LACY Reading too much into backlog and bookings can be misleading.
BRENT BRACELIN As a lawyer, David Pepper should obey the law, not break the law. Misleading and illegal political a...
BRAD GREENBERG I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, super...
BARBRA STREISAND A lot of the red-state, blue-state clichés are stupid and misleading. A lot of people were stunned ...
MICHAEL MEDVED If people were rubbing off date codes, that's fraudulent. It's misleading. It's deceptive. If my cli...
BARRY RICHARD The Bell companies are once again using false and misleading advertising to lobby for special favors...
ROBERT STODDARD Such falsehoods and misleading statements, made under oath before Congress, are shocking,
KATHLEEN BLANCO Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form
IMMANUEL KANT One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN He can't help himself but make personal attacks and misleading statements to distort the real differ...
DOUGLAS HATTAWAY These headline figures are ... misleading as most of the acceleration in PPI inflation during Septem...
CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON The answers dictate the logical course of the interview. You can't ask logical follow-up questions i...
HARRY SAMIT But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES True Wealth is not how much money you have or what you control it can be misleading, as to the chara...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. It is self-serving and potentially misleading to associate harmful effects with something other than...
WILLIAM HOFFMAN I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know th...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading n...
MARK TWAIN You cannot lead this country by misleading the people.
DAN QUAYLE statements before the [Iraq] war were deceptive and misleading and this is part of the pattern.
CARL LEVIN His answers are misleading, with all due respect,
JOSEPH BIDEN We are certainly aware this is circulating on the Internet and would like consumers to know it's fal...
KAREN COBB But if they were intended to drive down the sugar price, it is misleading and will be largely in vai...
YU MENGGUO An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc...
RUSSELL BAKER It is incredibly misleading, it is devious, it is deceptive, ... This initiative does not put more c...
CHARLIE BROWN There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
THOMAS SOWELL It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
ROBERT ARMSTRONG The movie was going to be a big hit. Of course, that was a perfect illustration of what market resea...
MARK URMAN This game sends the wrong message and is misleading the youth of America into thinking that this beh...
MICHAEL PALLADINO It can be misleading because people think meditation is slow. And this can be sweaty. People get a g...
PAULA BYRNE Economic growth has surpassed virtually everyone's expectations, ... hanging your hat on one number ...
MIKE RYAN I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading peop...
LEO BURNETT Overshadowing all has been the president's reckless, tawdry behavior, coupled with misleading statem...
JOHN CHAFEE I think the headline number is a bit misleading. It doesn't suggest that the economy is in trouble. ...
GARY THAYER Sadly the Democrats are misleading people and attacking President Bush. As a matter of principle, we...
JIM GILMORE Go ahead and continue not to answer, ... His answers are misleading, with all due respect.
JOE BIDEN I encountered a lot of people who were very distant and uncommunicative and misleading and self-cont...
DAVID NEWMAN I've been trying to figure out why he does this. But I can't. It's just more misleading information.
FRED FETZER The information transferred to justice officials by the AMF was misleading and late.
FREDERICK CANOY Twelve sacks is a little misleading because some were Drew just trying to scramble and make a play a...
GORDON NIEBYLSKI The company deeply regrets the fact that civic movements are misleading the Mongolian public by misr...
LAYTON CROFT The governor puts all his efforts into misleading people about the problem instead of fixing it. Add...
LACHLAN MCINTOSH I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to kno...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, dem...
FRANCIS SPUFFORD Don't get suckered in by the comments ... they can terribly be misleading.
DAVE STORER Some hotels said they offer the same standard of service as a four-star hotel. This is completely mi...
YAO SHUOYE Morally it was wrong to do so in this situation and certainly misleading to the officer,
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SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
SAMUEL BUTLER When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to di...
SAMUEL BUTLER The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anyth...
SAMUEL BUTLER Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...
SAMUEL BUTLER I went to the Bach Choir concert and heard Mozart's Requiem. I did not rise warmly to it. Then I hea...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of r...
SAMUEL BUTLER The money men make lives after them.
SAMUEL BUTLER The want of money is the root of all evil.
SAMUEL BUTLER All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
SAMUEL BUTLER For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to r...
SAMUEL BUTLER In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
SAMUEL BUTLER People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is one long process of getting tired.
SAMUEL BUTLER Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalid...
SAMUEL BUTLER A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...
SAMUEL BUTLER When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
SAMUEL BUTLER We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
SAMUEL BUTLER Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will...
SAMUEL BUTLER There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
SAMUEL BUTLER The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
SAMUEL BUTLER I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
SAMUEL BUTLER Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging h...
SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
SAMUEL BUTLER The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the...
SAMUEL BUTLER There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
SAMUEL BUTLER What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer l...
SAMUEL BUTLER You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be b...
SAMUEL BUTLER Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
SAMUEL BUTLER If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wa...
SAMUEL BUTLER We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, ...
SAMUEL BUTLER There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
SAMUEL BUTLER Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
SAMUEL BUTLER The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
SAMUEL BUTLER Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
SAMUEL BUTLER Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. A...
SAMUEL BUTLER There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every...
SAMUEL BUTLER I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more s...
SAMUEL BUTLER Life, they urge, would be intolerable if men were to be guided in all they did by reason and reason ...
SAMUEL BUTLER If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
SAMUEL BUTLER The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
SAMUEL BUTLER In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
SAMUEL BUTLER It is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
SAMUEL BUTLER Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
SAMUEL BUTLER When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through eithe...
SAMUEL BUTLER Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated...
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religi...
SAMUEL BUTLER A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
SAMUEL BUTLER The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to ap...
SAMUEL BUTLER Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it b...
SAMUEL BUTLER One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fightin...
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword
SAMUEL BUTLER All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond it...
SAMUEL BUTLER Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he pro...
SAMUEL BUTLER The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
SAMUEL BUTLER He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m...
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SAMUEL BUTLER Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
SAMUEL BUTLER The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
SAMUEL BUTLER The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he no...
SAMUEL BUTLER A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
SAMUEL BUTLER Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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SAMUEL BUTLER A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is a...
SAMUEL BUTLER God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as h...
SAMUEL BUTLER Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men t...
SAMUEL BUTLER For every why he had a wherefore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
SAMUEL BUTLER People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...
SAMUEL BUTLER If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole stor...
SAMUEL BUTLER Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
SAMUEL BUTLER An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when intr...
SAMUEL BUTLER Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the othe...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has s...
SAMUEL BUTLER Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came f...
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
SAMUEL BUTLER A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not se...
SAMUEL BUTLER The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein...
SAMUEL BUTLER The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
SAMUEL BUTLER The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER To be at all is to be religious more or less
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SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.
SAMUEL BUTLER All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
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SAMUEL BUTLER The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to...
SAMUEL BUTLER 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
SAMUEL BUTLER When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
SAMUEL BUTLER Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds...
SAMUEL BUTLER All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and des...
SAMUEL BUTLER People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or a...
SAMUEL BUTLER God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
SAMUEL BUTLER Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything els...
SAMUEL BUTLER Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
SAMUEL BUTLER The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...
SAMUEL BUTLER We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
SAMUEL BUTLER Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely re...
SAMUEL BUTLER Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent...
SAMUEL BUTLER We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the m...
SAMUEL BUTLER Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ h...
SAMUEL BUTLER A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
SAMUEL BUTLER It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has sh...
SAMUEL BUTLER A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's di...
SAMUEL BUTLER A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and...
SAMUEL BUTLER In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfyin...
SAMUEL BUTLER Words are clothes that thoughts wear
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SAMUEL BUTLER All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its ...
SAMUEL BUTLER There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every...
SAMUEL BUTLER People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
SAMUEL BUTLER If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
SAMUEL BUTLER Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has wri...
SAMUEL BUTLER He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m...
SAMUEL BUTLER Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man ma...
SAMUEL BUTLER All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away.
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SAMUEL BUTLER I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
SAMUEL BUTLER There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
SAMUEL BUTLER For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
SAMUEL BUTLER It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and th...
SAMUEL BUTLER There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
SAMUEL BUTLER Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a tr...
SAMUEL BUTLER Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in th...
SAMUEL BUTLER A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
SAMUEL BUTLER Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
SAMUEL BUTLER For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an...
SAMUEL BUTLER Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
SAMUEL BUTLER Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
SAMUEL BUTLER An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
SAMUEL BUTLER The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
SAMUEL BUTLER To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
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SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
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