Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live.… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“All our lives long, every day and every hour, we are engaged in the process of accommodating our changed and unchanged selves… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“So engrained in the human heart is the desire to believe that some people really do know what they say they know,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“I tell you, Edward, said my father with some severity, we must judge men not so much by what they do, as… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen? — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share
It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion… — Samuel Butler Copy Share
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share
