Christ and The Church: If he were to app...

Adultery

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

- Samuel Butler

Quote of the Day

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

- John L. Lewis

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Opinion Death World

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

- Samuel Butler

Pain Beauty

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

- Samuel Butler

Money Want Love

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

- Samuel Butler

Men

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

- Samuel Butler

Arguments Man

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

- Samuel Butler

Life

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

- Samuel Butler

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