About Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest...
More quotations from Samuel Butler
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
More quotations tagged with “appearance”
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
You can't just change who you are on the outside and expect it to change who you are on the inside.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.