Samuel Butler Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Educational, Learning

  Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69

• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Life, History

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 19

• Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Success, Music

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4082, Delphi Classics

• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Happiness, Fear

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Life, Tired

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

• Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Crazy, Bad Ass

• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Notebooks "Life" (1912)

• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Art, Bad Ass

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.440, The Floating Press

• Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Life, Character

• If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Life, Death

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4374, Delphi Classics

• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Men, History

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4087, Delphi Classics

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

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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