“Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument—that, friends, is real wisdom.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Food of Love Eating is touch carried to the bitter end. -Samuel Butler II I'm going to murder you with love; I'm… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
“Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“He [Samuel Butler] made a practise of doing the forks last when washing up, on the grounds that he might die before… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
![“He [Samuel Butler] made a practise of doing the forks last when washing up, on the grounds that he might die before he got to them. This is very much his principle of 'eating the grapes downwards', so that however many grapes you have eaten the next is always the best of the remainder.” quote by Philip Larkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/de2/philip-larkin-1822_quote_he-samuel-butler-made-a-practise-of-doin_2787889.jpg)