Samuel Butler – “Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.…”
Samuel Butler best Communication Quotes – “Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.”
Samuel Butler best Communication Quotes – “Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.”
Samuel Butler best Faith Quotes – “What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.”
Samuel Butler best Faith Quotes – “You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”
Samuel Butler best Experience Quotes – “Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
Samuel Butler best Dreams Quotes – “Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.”
Samuel Butler best Death Quotes – “If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”
Samuel Butler best Death Quotes – “To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”
Samuel Butler best Death Quotes – “There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.”
Samuel Butler best Death Quotes – “Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.”
Samuel Butler best Chance Quotes – “People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.”
Samuel Butler best Business Quotes – “All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
Samuel Butler best Best Quotes – “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
Samuel Butler best Beauty Quotes – “To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.”
Samuel Butler best Art Quotes – “Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
Samuel Butler best Art Quotes – “The history of art is the history of revivals.”