Quotes by : Samuel Butler

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

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

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

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

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.

All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.