"Youth is like spring, an overpraised season" — Samuel Butler

"Youth is like spring, an overpraised season"

— Samuel Butler

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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler has 228 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to…
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till…
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them…
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he…

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I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael… — Charles Barkley
Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. — William Butler Yeats
When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like… — Marci Shimoff
His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening… — Christer Kihlman
Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body. — Jentezen Franklin
A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like… — Earl Nightingale
True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn,… — Zhuangzi
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. — Khalil Gibran
Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm… — Marilyn Monroe
Apologizing is like spring cleaning. — Katherine Hannigan

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