Samuel Butler Quotes ( Author Of Novel Erewhon)
Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902) was a British satirist, most famous for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.
Samuel Butler Quotes:
Samuel Butler Quotes
1. Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
― Samuel Butler
2. Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
― Samuel Butler
3. A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
― Samuel Butler
4. It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.
― Samuel Butler, Erewhon
5. Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
― Samuel Butler
6. Life is one long process of getting tired.
― Samuel Butler
7. The body [of man] is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole thing fixed on stilts.
― Samuel Butler
8. Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
― Samuel Butler
9. The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
― Samuel Butler
10. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
― Samuel Butler
11. A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
― Samuel Butler
12. Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
― Samuel Butler
13. Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
― Samuel Butler
14. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
― Samuel Butler
15. I wish people would more generally bring back the seeds of pleasing foreign plants and introduce them broadcast, sowing them by our waysides and in our fields, or in whatever situation is most likely to suit them. It is true, this would puzzle botanists, but there is no reason why botanists should not be puzzled. A botanist is a person whose aim is to uproot, kill and exterminate every plant that is at all remarkable for rarity or any special virtue, and the rarer it is the more bitterly he will hunt it down.
― Samuel Butler
16. The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
― Samuel Butler
17. All our lives long, every day and every hour, we are engaged in the process of accommodating our changed and unchanged selves to changed and unchanged surroundings: living, in fact, is nothing else than this process of accommodation; when we fail in it a little we are stupid, when flagrantly we are mad, when we give up the attempt altogether we die, when we suspend it temporarily we sleep.
― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
18. 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.
― Samuel Butler
19. There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second
― Samuel Butler
20. From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
― Samuel Butler
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