Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.” — 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
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
“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
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
“Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. — 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
