Life Quotes

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Life is not an exact science, it is an art. — Samuel Butler
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. — Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. — Samuel Butler
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. — Samuel Butler
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. — Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. — Samuel Butler
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. — Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. — Samuel Butler
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — Samuel Butler
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is… — Samuel Butler
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. — Samuel Butler
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. — Samuel Butler
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his… — Samuel Butler
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did… — Smedley Butler
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need… — Buzz Aldrin
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape. — A. S. Byatt
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life. — A. S. Byatt
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital… — Robert Byrd
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. — David Byrne
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. — David Byrne
The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes… — David Byrne
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many… — Gabriel Byrne

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