Butler, Samuel (1835 – 1902), English composer, novelist, & satiric author
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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.
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
