A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. - Samuel Butler. View more images...
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. View more images...
We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire. - Samuel Butler. View more images...
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. - Samuel Butler. View more images...
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. - Samuel Butler. View more images...
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 good for us. - Samuel Butler. View more images...
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler. View more images...
Love in your hearts as idly burns
As fire in antique Roman urns. - Samuel Butler. View more images...
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. - Samuel Butler. View more images...
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. - Samuel Butler. View more images...
God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is! - Samuel Butler. View more images...
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 what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule. - Samuel Butler. View more images...
All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler. View more images...
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. - Samuel Butler. View more images...
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler. View more images...