Samuel Butler

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bad #ideas #like #lives #most

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

— Samuel Butler

#same #silence #tact #thing

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#been #called #had #mariner #old

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#may #nothing #truth #whole

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#businesses #fighting #first #know #leave

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#anything #busy #cambridge #educating #men

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

— Samuel Butler

#digestions #few #good #healthy #nothing

The history of art is the history of revivals. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#history #revivals #the history of

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bored #contemptible #even #himself #lets

In law, nothing is certain but the expense. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#certain #expense #law #nothing