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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.

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

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)

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

Samuel Butler
Love, Funny, Marriage

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

Samuel Butler
Funny, Crazy, Silly
Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

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

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

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

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

Samuel Butler
Funny, Witty, Children
Notebooks (1912)

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

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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