Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Life 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… — Samuel Butler Accounts Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Enough Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Animals 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… — Samuel Butler Advantage 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 Life Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Being 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 Medical 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… — Samuel Butler Consistency Copy Share Image
A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler Being bored Copy Share Image
It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but… — Samuel Butler Accomplish Copy Share Image
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to… — Samuel Butler Able Copy Share Image
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when… — Samuel Butler Exalted Copy Share Image
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the… — Samuel Butler Argument Copy Share Image
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Animals Copy Share Image
Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose… — Samuel Butler Band 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 Broken Copy Share Image
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. — Samuel Butler Enough Copy Share Image
“We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble--no matter how often we… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate. — Samuel Butler Accounts Copy Share Image
