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

Quote by Samuel Butler

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We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and...

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism...

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also...

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also...

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy....

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy....

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

X-rays will prove to be a hoax

X-rays will prove to be a hoax

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be;...

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be;...

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than...

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than...

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives...

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives...

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the...

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the...

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

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

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,...

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he...

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he...

Useless as tits on on bull

Useless as tits on on bull

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he...

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he...

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help...

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help...