Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel ButlerMots clés politics political-humor
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
Samuel ButlerMots clés history
Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change is a shock; every shock is a pro tanto death. What we call death is only a shock great enough to destroy our power to recognize a past and a present as resembling one another.
Samuel ButlerMots clés death
a man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Samuel ButlerBooks are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel ButlerMots clés words reading books freedom literature
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel ButlerAll animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel ButlerMots clés happiness
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel ButlerWe can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble--no matter how often we drive them off. The best way to keep them down is to have a few good strong cat-ideas which will embrace them and ensure their not reappearing till they do so in another shape.
Samuel ButlerProperty, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.
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