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Samuel Butler Quotes

British - Poet | December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

People Chance Lucky Unlucky Expect

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Virtue Headache Only Would Precede

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Nature Egg Way Only Making Hen

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Work Music Architecture Man Portrait

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Virtue Vice Midst Vice Versa Versa

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Path Moving Body Belief Resistance

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

Silence Same May Tact Same Thing

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Knowledge Dangerous Want Little Also

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God History Past Historians Cannot

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Nobody Santa Santa Claus Shoots

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Life People Enjoy Never Most Main

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Nature Law First Self-Preservation

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