NOUN
- English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902)
- English poet (1612-1680)
How To Use Samuel Butler In A Sentence
- Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Samuel Butler
- Man, unlike animals, has never learned that the sole purpose in life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler
- Anywhere in the Southern Alps it is easy to feel as Samuel Butler's hero did in Erewhon, that the high pass at the head of the valley is the gateway to some mysterious land.
- All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler
- Inscribed "Samuel Butler for probationership, December 28th 1868. The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College Cambridge
- Why should not Conscience have a vacation. Samuel Butler
- The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. Samuel Butler
- Samuel Butler, for the notebook of housewives, may be summarized as a pyramid, based upon toast, whereof the chief masonries are a flake of bacon, an egg poached to firmness, a wreath of mushrooms, a cap-sheaf of red peppers; the whole dribbled with a warm pink sauce of which the inventor retains the secret. The Haunted Bookshop