“All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.” — Samuel Butler Animals Copy Share Image
I never knew a writer yet whotook the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Enjoy Copy Share Image
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins,… — Samuel Butler Enough Copy Share Image
Cat-Ideas and Mouse-Ideas. We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble-no matter… — Samuel Butler Again and again Copy Share Image
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself… — Samuel Butler Doubt Copy Share Image
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. — Samuel Butler Bible 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 Ends Copy Share Image
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler Academic Copy Share Image
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. — Samuel Butler Gossip Copy Share Image
One should judge by appearance only: what is hidden should remain so — Samuel Butler Appearance Copy Share Image
“I know not why, but all the noblest arts hold in perfection but for a very little moment. They soon reach a… — Samuel Butler Art 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
Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind — Samuel Butler Leadership Copy Share Image
Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance… — Samuel Butler Genuine Copy Share Image
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the… — Samuel Butler Art Copy Share Image
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. — Samuel Butler Autumn 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 Able Copy Share Image
Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child — Samuel Butler Children 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
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth. — Samuel Butler Absolute truth Copy Share Image
