Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butlerwas an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which remain in use to this day...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 December 1835
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Some men love truth so much that they seem in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.
We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last