Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was a poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem entitled Hudibras .
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. Go to Quote / Comment
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Go to Quote / Comment
Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell. Go to Quote / Comment
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. Go to Quote / Comment
A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. Go to Quote / Comment