Samuel Butler

It is tact that is golden, not silence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#silence #tact

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#art #exact #exact science #science

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#anything #architecture #else #every #himself

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#healthy #instinct #like #live #love

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#art #conclusions #drawing #insufficient #premises

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

#according #been #between #expect #get

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#children #clothes #drunkard #eat #give

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#believing #chastity #christian #christian religion #deadly

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#cannot #does #forget #friend #happened

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#band #cannot #christ #dislike #him