List of quotes from Samuel Butler
"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead."
by Samuel Butler
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."
by Samuel Butler
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
by Samuel Butler
"The world will always be governed by self-interest: we should not try to stop this: we should try and make the self-interest of cads a little more coincident with that of decent people."
by Samuel Butler
"All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others."
by Samuel Butler
"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it."
by Samuel Butler
"Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds."
by Samuel Butler
"Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it."
by Samuel Butler