Top 164 Quotes by Samuel Butler

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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

Let every man be true and every god a liar.