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All truth is not to be told at all times.
- Samuel Butler
#Times
#Truth Is
#Truth
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
- Samuel Butler
#Also
#Dangerous
#Knowledge
#Little
#Want
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
- Samuel Butler
#Compliment
#Lie
#Pay
#Person
#Respect
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
#Evil
#Love
#Money
#Said
#Want
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- Samuel Butler
#Fool
#Know
#Lie
#Man
#Truth
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
- Samuel Butler
#Children
#Earth
#Funny
#Parents
#People
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
- Samuel Butler
#Better
#Far
#Half
#Men
#War
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
- Samuel Butler
#Instinct
#Life
#Live
#Love
#Reason
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
#Enough
#Humor
#Man
#Sense Of Humor
#Will
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
- Samuel Butler
#Faith
#Little
#Nothing
#Very
#Without
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
- Samuel Butler
#Death
#Life
#Must
#Seriously
#Then
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
#Business
#Know
#Life
#Man
#Principal
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
- Samuel Butler
#Best
#Go
#Liar
#Longest
#Way
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
- Samuel Butler
#Fear
#Love
#Men
#She
#Truth
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
- Samuel Butler
#Baptism
#Know
#Medical
#More
#Sacrament
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
- Samuel Butler
#Healing
#Medical
#Physician
#Power
#Same
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
#Enjoy
#Learned
#Life
#Never
#People
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
- Samuel Butler
#Art
#Exact
#Life
#Science
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
- Samuel Butler
#Health
#Lose
#Man
#Money
#Reputation
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler
#Animal
#Food
#Friendly
#He
#Man
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
- Samuel Butler
#Dead
#Death
#Die
#Know
#Never
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
- Samuel Butler
#First
#Law
#Nature
#Self-Preservation
Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler
#Getting
#Life
#Long
#Process
#Tired
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
- Samuel Butler
#Dew
#Life
#Lightning
#Morning
#Nature
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
- Samuel Butler
#Company
#Doing
#Enjoy
#Good Company
#Good
#People
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
- Samuel Butler
#Egg
#Making
#Nature
#Only
#Way
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler
#Art
#Conclusions
#Drawing
#Life
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
- Samuel Butler
#Arrogance
#Ignorance
#Pride
#Truest
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
#Architecture
#Man
#Music
#Portrait
#Work
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
- Samuel Butler
#Appearance
#Grateful
#Mirror
#Thankful
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
- Samuel Butler
#Better
#Lost
#Loved
#Never
#Romantic
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
#Easier
#Friendship
#Like
#Made
#Money
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
- Samuel Butler
#Certain
#Expense
#Law
#Legal
#Nothing
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
- Samuel Butler
#Cannot
#God
#Historians
#History
#Past
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
- Samuel Butler
#Fear
#Hearing
#Me
#Myself
#Static
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler
#Experience
#Learning
#Life
#Like
#Solo
#Violin
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
- Samuel Butler
#Communication
#Oaths
#Wind
#Words
People 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 Butler
#Chance
#Get
#Lucky
#People
#Unlucky
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