Samuel Butler Quotes - Page 3

• The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

  Samuel Butler

  Character, Wish, Opinion

  1872 Erewhon.

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• La gente siempre está bien acompañada cuando hace lo que realmente le gusta.

  Samuel Butler

  Happiness, Work, People

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.2084, Delphi Classics

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• Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

  Samuel Butler

  Loyalty, Army, Winning

  Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Samuel Butler”, p.11

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• Hay un fotógrafo en cada arbusto, que anda como león rugiente buscando a quién devorar.

  Samuel Butler

  Gossip, Roaring, Lions

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4250, Delphi Classics

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• Dicen que la prueba de [poder literario] es si un hombre puede escribir una inscripción. Yo digo: "¿Puede ponerle nombre a un gatito?". Y por esta prueba estoy condenado, porque no puedo.

  Samuel Butler

  Writing, Cat, Men

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4166, Delphi Classics

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• Un hombre puede tener cualquier número de pequeños objetivos de los que debe ser consciente y para los que debe tener nombres, pero no debe tener ni nombre ni conciencia del objetivo principal de su vida.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspiración, Sabiduría, Hombres

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4240, Delphi Classics

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• How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

  Samuel Butler

  Children, Real, Parent

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.43, The Floating Press

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• He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.

  Samuel Butler

  Sarcastic, Stupid, Born

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• Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

  Samuel Butler

  Justice, Injustice, Justice And Injustice

  Collected in H F Jones (ed) The Notebooks of Samuel Butler (1912).

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• There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

  Samuel Butler

  Truth, Honesty, Ideas

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.374, The Floating Press

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• Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

  Samuel Butler

  Failure, Adversity, Men

  'The Way of All Flesh' (1903) ch. 5

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• He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  Samuel Butler

  Educación, Enseñanza, Hombres

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.277, The Floating Press

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• Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

  Samuel Butler

  Muerte, Gente, Morir

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

  Samuel Butler

  Muerte, Hombres, Morir

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4374, Delphi Classics

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• In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

  Samuel Butler

  Practice, Sometimes, Duty

  Samuel Butler (1926). “The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler”

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• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

  Samuel Butler

  Art, Interesting, Youth

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.197, The Floating Press

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• He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

  Samuel Butler

  Greatness, Men, Good Thoughts

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4255, Delphi Classics

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• Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

  Samuel Butler

  Dios, Ciencia, Hombres

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.273, The Floating Press

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• There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.

  Samuel Butler

  Conocimiento, Ciencia, Pensamiento

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.272, The Floating Press

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• We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

  Samuel Butler

  Forgiveness, Love Is, Forgiving

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4367, Delphi Classics

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