Samuel Butler

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#god #noremorse #prayer #satanism #men

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime ↗

— Samuel Butler

#existence #life #lifetime #living #sensible

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#man #nothing #serious #seriously #should

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#poetry #solipsism #metaphysics

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#goes #instrument #learning #life #like

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#matrimony #marriage

It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#respect

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#laughs #legislature #man #only #state

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#fool #how #know #lie #man

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#better #death #drink #eat #etc