Samuel Butler Quotes

Samuel Butler Quotes

Samuel Butler Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Samuel Butler:

"Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds."

"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."

"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."

"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books."

"All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others."

"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."

"Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away."

"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."

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