"To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it." ― Samuel Butler Topic(s): Best More From Samuel Butler "Self-preservation is the first law of nature." "The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it." "If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success." More In Best "The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."― Douglas MacArthur "If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them."― Will Rogers "The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one."― William James