Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — 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
“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
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
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
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who… — 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
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both — 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
“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
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
God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. — 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
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — 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
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
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — 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
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — 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 Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“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 Image
