Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butlerwas an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which remain in use to this day...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 December 1835
Some men love truth so much that they seem in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.
People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.