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Life Quotes by Samuel Butler
- Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
- Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
- To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
- The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
- Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
- Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
- Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
- Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
- 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…
- 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.
- The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
- 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…
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler
- All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
- There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get…
- Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till…
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