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Samuel Butler Quotes

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

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

World Learn Doing Ground Rough Your

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Mistake Logic Beyond More Her Than

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Man Serious Seriously Nothing Taken

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Men War Better Half Far Than

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Religion People Christian Seeing

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Voice Common Sense Lord Common Sense

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Culture Man Enough Look Hand First

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Good Healthy Nothing Conservative

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Live World Enough Fools More Would

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.

Friend Remember Bad Know Forget Two

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Marriage Man Friends Will Like His

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Law Legal Nothing Expense Certain

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