Youth is like spring, an overpraised season

Quote by Samuel Butler

Topics: Youth Quotes

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil....

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil....

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will...

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will...

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes...

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes...

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but...

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but...

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be...

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of...

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of...

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or...

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or...

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good,...

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good,...

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

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.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays,...

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays,...

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of...

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of...