Category: Quote of the Day

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Samuel Butler

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Samuel Butler

But I am not a sensible man.

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A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.

Samuel Butler

We play out our days as we play out cards, taking them as they come, not knowing what they will be, hoping for a lucky card and sometimes getting one, often getting just the wrong one.

Samuel Butler

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler

We do not know what death is. If we know so little about life which we have experienced, how shall be know about death which we have not — and in the nature of things never can?

Samuel Butler

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Samuel Butler

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butler