Quotes by Samuel Butler

The want of money is the root of all evil.

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

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

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