To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead. — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Animals Copy Share Image
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
“All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.” — Samuel Butler Animal Copy Share Image
Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child — Samuel Butler Children Copy Share Image
He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, The learned hold, are animals; So horses they affirm to be Mere engines made by… — Samuel Butler Horses Copy Share Image
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with… — Samuel Butler Language Copy Share Image
And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great… — Samuel Butler Adversity Copy Share Image
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk or a curate, while… — Samuel Butler Business Copy Share Image
“Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.” — Samuel Butler Book Copy Share Image
Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. — Samuel Butler Genius Copy Share Image
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. — Samuel Butler Argument Copy Share Image
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. — Samuel Butler Gold Copy Share Image
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. — Samuel Butler Divine Copy Share Image
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. — Samuel Butler Arrogance Copy Share Image
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. — Samuel Butler Analogy Copy Share Image
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. — Samuel Butler Bounds Copy Share Image
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. — Samuel Butler Biology Copy Share Image
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. — Samuel Butler Bounds Copy Share Image
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without. — Samuel Butler Evolution Copy Share Image
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is… — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. — Samuel Butler Child Copy Share Image
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. — 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
The man who takes time to explain his mistakes has little time left for anything else — Samuel Butler Failure Copy Share Image
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken too seriously — Samuel Butler Conviction Copy Share Image
