Samuel Butler

Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything…

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my…

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there…

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods…

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing…

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest…

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war…

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care…

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he…

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death…

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of…

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch…

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms…

To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty…

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath…