413 Quotes by Samuel Butler

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

For things said false and never meant, Do oft prove true by accident

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure /tangible material prosperity in this world /is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.