413 Quotes by Samuel Butler

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

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

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

He ne'er considered it, as loath To look a gift-horse in the mouth

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Have always been at daggers-drawing, / And one another clapper-clawing.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.