Category: Quote of the Day

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Samuel Butler

Life is the gathering of waves to a head, at death they break into a million fragments each one of which, however, is absorbed at once into the sea of life and helps to form a later generation which comes rolling on till it too breaks.

Samuel Butler

Slugs have ridden their contempt for defensive armour as much to death as the turtles their pursuit of it. They have hardly more than skin enough to hold themselves together; they court death every time they cross the road. Yet death comes not to them more than to the turtle, whose defences are so great that there is little left inside to be defended. Moreover, the slugs fare best in the long run, for turtles are dying out, while slugs are not, and there must be millions of slugs all over the world over for every single turtle.

Samuel Butler

We can see nothing face to face; our utmost seeing is but a fumbling of blind finger-ends in an overcrowded pocket.

Samuel Butler

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