The course of true anything does not run smooth. Samuel Butler More Quotes by Samuel Butler More Quotes From Samuel Butler The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Samuel Butler bores-youboredommen Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. Samuel Butler looksenemythinking Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap. Samuel Butler reapleaplooks Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. Samuel Butler dewlightningmorning Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Samuel Butler ironysarcasmsarcastic God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch. Samuel Butler witchlastsreligion And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. Samuel Butler there-is-no-godhas-beenspast When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. Samuel Butler writingmenyears Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler bad-asscrazylife Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. Samuel Butler coldshouldmen Let man be true and every god a liar. Samuel Butler liarsmenlying The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. Samuel Butler digestionconservativehealthy A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. Samuel Butler humorousdreamfunny Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. Samuel Butler educationinspirationalfall Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. Samuel Butler marriagelovefunny Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. Samuel Butler fightingatheistnames Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. Samuel Butler lovecharacterlife Death is only a larger kind of going abroad. Samuel Butler death-sympathykindsympathy Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. Samuel Butler evilrunningwater Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. Samuel Butler developmentmenreligion
