About Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest...
More quotations from Samuel Butler
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
More quotations tagged with “foolishness”
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.