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.
-Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler Quotes – God cannot alter the past..
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – Man is God’s highest present development..
Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – The youth of an art is..
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – Faith – you can do very little with it..
Faith – you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – A drunkard would not give money to sober people..
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.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be..
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be..
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name..
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods..
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
-Samuel Butler