Author of quotes: Samuel Butler

The most perfect humour and irony are usually born totally unconscious.

In life there are two basic rules, one common, the other private. The first of them reads: sooner or later everyone will get what they want, if only you try. This is the General rule. The quotient rule says that every individual to a greater or lesser extent, there is an exception to the General rule.

True lovers are like sunset and sunrise, a phenomenon about which much is written and said, but rarely see firsthand.

The public buys its opinions as well as buying meat and milk because it is cheaper than hold their own cow. Only then the milk consists mostly of water.

The relationship between the sexes is hardly possible without rubbing.

A little faith will do, but without faith won't do anything.

The Bible may be telling the truth, but you cannot say that it is the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Our mistake is often not in deed, and in sorrow.

Reality is nothing more than an illusion, but the illusion is so strong and universal that no one can resist her.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until such time as they will be eaten.

There are only two types of teachers: those who teach too much, and those who do not teach at all.

Rivalry without hostility is a game at whist kissing.

The skilled liar is the one who sends a minor lie by a circuitous route.

The main importance of the press is that it teaches people sceptical about the press.