Top 99 Samuel Butler Quotes

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible re

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel Butler