If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Quote by Samuel Butler

Topics: Death Quotes

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy....

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy....

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

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

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that...

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that...

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without...

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without...

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called...

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called...

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the...

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the...

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep...

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep...

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be,...

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be,...

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have...

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have...