Tag: 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

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Samuel Butler

A lawyer’s dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his own property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Samuel Butler

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Samuel Butler

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler