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

Quote by Samuel Butler

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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that...

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that...

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

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

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

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain,...

Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain,...

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

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

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make...

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make...

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of...

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of...

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more...

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more...

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good,...

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good,...

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also...

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also...

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should...

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should...

X-rays will prove to be a hoax

X-rays will prove to be a hoax

I once made love to a female clown, and she twisted my penis into a...

I once made love to a female clown, and she twisted my penis into a...

A joke is a very serious thing

A joke is a very serious thing