The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. Samuel Butler More Quotes by Samuel Butler More Quotes From Samuel Butler A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. Samuel Butler friendshipmemoriestwo A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. Samuel Butler funny-friendmen Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. Samuel Butler atmospherecommon-sensepeople You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. Samuel Butler motivationfaithlittles Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies. Samuel Butler clothesbodymind Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. Samuel Butler neighbourworstshould Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. Samuel Butler musicsuccesslife Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. Samuel Butler divorcechurchreligion We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. Samuel Butler forgivenessforgivinglove People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. Samuel Butler atheismchristianpeople 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 armyloyaltywinning Friends are like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler easiermadefriendship History is a bucket of ashes. Samuel Butler bucketscarpe-diemashes The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination. Samuel Butler imaginationbeeranimal The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Samuel Butler biblicalmaybible Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it. Samuel Butler airplaneflyingmen There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one. Samuel Butler classgivingscience Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing. Samuel Butler memorieslifescience Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into the world so that those who believe in him, &c.; and they will burn people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance. Samuel Butler natureignorancebelieve I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them. Samuel Butler literaturegivingscience
