Quotes by Samuel Butler

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.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

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

The want of money is the root of all evil.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.