What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. - Samuel Butler 1 Share Now -
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. - Samuel Butler 2 Share Now -
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. - Samuel Butler 5 Share Now -
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. - Samuel Butler 7 Share Now -
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. - Samuel Butler 8 Share Now -
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. - Samuel Butler 10 Share Now -
