Youth is like spring, an overpraised season

Quote by Samuel Butler

Topics: Youth Quotes

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...

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The...

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The...

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good...

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good...

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the...

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the...

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money,...

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money,...

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature...

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature...

To be at all is to be religious more or less

To be at all is to be religious more or less

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...

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music...

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music...

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy...

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy...

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing...

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing...

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

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...

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a...

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a...

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

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

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.