Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler may refer to:

  • Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680), author of Hudibras
  • Samuel Butler (schoolmaster) (1774–1839), classical scholar, schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, Bishop of Lichfield
  • Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835–1902), grandson of the scholar, author of Erewhon
  • Samuel Butler (cricketer) (1850–1903), who in 1871 took all ten wickets in an innings for Oxford against Cambridge
  • Sam Butler, Australian Rules footballer

Famous quotes containing the words samuel butler, samuel and/or butler:

    Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
    Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 6:6.

    The words were rendered by Samuel Johnson in the opening lines of The Ant: “Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.”

    There, through the broken branches, go
    The ravens of unresting thought;
    Flying, crying, to and fro,
    Cruel claw and hungry throat,
    Or else they stand and sniff the wind....
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)