Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler More Quotes by Samuel Butler More Quotes From Samuel Butler Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. Samuel Butler trainingmenworld No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. Samuel Butler logicmistakecommon The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. Samuel Butler advantagepraiseinspirational A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. Samuel Butler commonersvirtuegold There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. Samuel Butler menfunnydeath Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. Samuel Butler natureflowerinspiring To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. Samuel Butler paincompassionbeauty Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. Samuel Butler wantwritingbook Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler animallaughingmen Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. Samuel Butler ablewisemen There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. Samuel Butler gracefulnessgoodness God cannot alter the past, though historians can. Samuel Butler educationhistorypast Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds Samuel Butler geniuskindmight It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. Samuel Butler consciousnessactionspring Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. Samuel Butler moneyorderlong Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. Samuel Butler etcrememberthinking Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him. Samuel Butler bandpeoplereligion The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. Samuel Butler evilartinteresting From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. Samuel Butler point-of-viewviewsmistake [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. Samuel Butler metaphysicsminddoe
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