Samuel Butler Quotes

“Analogy points in this direction, and though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:reason

“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:work enemy

“Books are like imprisoned souls until some one takes them down from a shelf and reads them.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:reading books

“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:virtue

“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:foolishness pleasure

“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:philosophy

“Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:silence

“You see, poetry resembles metaphysics, one does not mind one's own, but one does not like any one else's.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:poetry

“the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way”

― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

topic:lie

“We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

topic:lie

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