Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butlerwas an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which remain in use to this day...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 December 1835
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.