Samuel ButlerA collection of 81 posts

Valentines Day

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Work

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look ...

Work

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Women

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

War

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

Truth

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

Truth

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

Truth

The Bible may be the truth but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the tr...

Truth

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Truth

All truth is not to be told at all times.