Samuel Butler Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
Samuel Butler quotes and sayings page 6 (poet). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 125 we have.
“If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.”
“For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
“They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'”
“To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.”
“Be virtuous and you will be vicious.”
“Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.”
“Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.”
“Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.”
“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”
“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”
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