Samuel Butler

To w bezkompromisowości, z jaką odbywa się dogmat, a nie w dogmacie lub braku dogmatów, leży niebezpieczeństwo.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Kura to sposób, w jaki jajo produkuje dalsze jaja.

Those that fly may fight again, Which we can never do that's slain. Hence timely running's no mean part Of conduct, in the martial art.

A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it.

The souls of women are so small, That some believe they've none at all.

No gold, no Holy Ghost.

Brigands require your money or your life. Women require both.

If life must not be taken too seriously-- then so neither must death.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. (The Way of All Flesh)

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places. (The Way of All Flesh)

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.

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

The course of true anything does not run smooth.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

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

przyjaźń jest jak pieniądze: łatwiej ją zdobyć niż utrzymać.

friendship is like money: easier made than kept