Samuel Butler Quotes About Life
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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