Author: Samuel Butler

Quotes

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

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

- Samuel Butler

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

- Samuel Butler

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

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

- Samuel Butler

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

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

- Samuel Butler

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.

- Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

- Samuel Butler

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

- Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

- Samuel Butler

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

- Samuel Butler

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