All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Animals Copy Share Image
To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead. — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
“We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. — Samuel Butler Absence Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such… — Samuel Butler Book Copy Share Image
“For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses, With which like Ships they steer their courses.” — Samuel Butler Poetry Copy Share Image
There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not,… — Samuel Butler Care 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 Care Copy Share Image
“Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who… — Samuel Butler Flood Copy Share Image
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Let it suffice that George Pontifex did not consider himself fortunate, and he who does not consider himself fortunate is unfortunate.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but… — Samuel Butler Fall season Copy Share Image
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow… — Samuel Butler Character Copy Share Image
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler Bored Copy Share Image
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. — Samuel Butler Animal Copy Share Image
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents? — Samuel Butler Child Copy Share Image
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. — Samuel Butler Cold Copy Share Image
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. — Samuel Butler Opinion Copy Share Image
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. — Samuel Butler Books Copy Share Image
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence — Samuel Butler Silence Copy Share Image
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. — Samuel Butler Crime Copy Share Image
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite… — Samuel Butler Evil Copy Share Image
People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. — Samuel Butler Lucky Copy Share Image
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' — Samuel Butler Kitten Copy Share Image
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. — Samuel Butler Failure Copy Share Image
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. — Samuel Butler Death Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success. — Samuel Butler Being bored Copy Share Image
“the baby must be either a boy or girl — this much, at any rate, was clear.” — Samuel Butler Baby Copy Share Image
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler Existence Copy Share Image
This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark. — Samuel Butler Animals Copy Share Image
A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler Being bored Copy Share Image
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