Quotes by : Samuel Butler

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in....

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.....

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond....

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its....

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come....

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.