To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. – Samuel Butler
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. – Samuel Butler
Our religion is itself profoundly sad – a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each mans own language – so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. – Charles Baudelaire
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls. – George Bernard Shaw