Youth is like spring, an overpraised season

Quote by Samuel Butler

Topics: Youth Quotes

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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...

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

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...

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on...

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on...

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...

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets...

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets...

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

We think as we do, mainly because other people think so

We think as we do, mainly because other people think so

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my...

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my...

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest...

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest...

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them...

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them...

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do...

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do...