Samuel Butler

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Logic is like the sword

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Women prefer men who have something tender about them – especially the legal kind.

It’s very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they’ve made to my life.

If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t got nothing.

She was always a little crazy, which is why I understand her so well.

I’m currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it’s all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy-that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

It’s fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody’s face while we’re having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy?

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.

She was not for everyone, but she was for me.

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Lasting love and forgiveness are two sides of the same page.

Friendship, ‘the wine of life,’ said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.