413 Quotes by Samuel Butler

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

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

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.