Quotes by Butler, Samuel

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instru >>

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. >>

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should n >>

Quotations about Pleasure

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasure >>

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. >>

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain. >>

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

Butler, Samuel