Samuel Butler Funny Quotes

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• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

• An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, God, Im Sorry

  Notebooks ch. 14 (1912)

• There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Death, Men

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4373, Delphi Classics

• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Witty, Children

  Notebooks (1912)

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

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Life, Death

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4374, Delphi Classics

• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Funny, Marriage

• A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Dream, Humorous

  Further Extracts from Notebooks (1934) p. 27

• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Sweet, Father

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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