Youth is like spring, an overpraised season

Quote by Samuel Butler

Topics: Youth Quotes

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.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he...

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he...

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds...

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds...

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken...

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a...

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a...

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....

One should judge by appearance only: what is hidden should remain so

One should judge by appearance only: what is hidden should remain so

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

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

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our...

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our...

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is...

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is...

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened...

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened...

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall...

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life...

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life...

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he...

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he...

All truth is not to be told at all times.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.