Samuel Butler

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bored #death #die #i #my own

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#anxious #day #for the day #itself #own

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#i #knew #never #pains #readable

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#compliment #him #his #kind #lie

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

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#irony #neither #sarcasm

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#wind #words

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#clothes #minds #much #our #want

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#another #egg #hen #making #only

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#divine #pearl #precious #rich #swine