Samuel Butler Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)
Samuel Butler quotes and sayings page 9 (poet). Here's quote # 81 through 90 out of the 125 we have.
“There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.”
“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.”
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
“The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.”
“When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.”
“No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.”
“Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.”
“Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.”
“Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.”
“A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.”
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