Logo
Quote by Samuel Butler
To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Genius
Author
Samuel Butler
Read Quote

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. – Samuel Butler

Category:
God
Author
Samuel Butler
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Life
category

You know what your problem is, its that you havent seen enough movies – all of lifes riddles are answered in the movies. – Steve Martin

Category:
Life

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Life

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. – Tony Robbins

Category:
Life

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Dont resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. – Lao Tzu

Category:
Life

Random Quotes

If you haven’t had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. – Phyllis Battelle

Category:
Heart

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night. – Robin Hayes

Category:
best

History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David McCullough

Category:
History

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction. – Joshua Foer

Category:
Science