I suppose in reality not a leaf goes yellow in autumn without ceasing to care about its sap and making the parent tree very uncomfortable by long growling and grumbling - but surely nature might find some less irritating way of carrying on business if she would give her mind to it. Why should the generations overlap one another at all? Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat little cells with ten or twenty thousand pounds each wrapped round us in Bank of England notes, and wake up, as the sphex wasp does, to find that its papa and mamma have not only left ample provision at its elbow, but have been eaten by sparrows some weeks before it began to live consciously on its own account?
Samuel ButlerFriendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel ButlerTags: friendship
Friendship is like Money; easier made than kept.
Samuel ButlerDon't learn to do, but learn in doing.
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Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Samuel Butlerwe must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough in either painting, music, or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough
Samuel ButlerLa vida es el arte de sacar conclusiones suficientes a partir de datos insuficientes.
Samuel ButlerIn matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
Samuel ButlerI have been told lately that Fuseli was travelling by coach and a gentleman opposite him said: "I understand, Mr. Fuseli, that you... I have been told lately that Fuseli was travelling by coach and a gentleman opposite him said: "I understand, Mr. Fuseli, that you are a painter; it may interest you to know that I have a daughter who paints on velvet."
Fuseli rose instantly and said in a strong foreign accent, "Let me get out.
Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism …
Samuel ButlerTags: indifference hypocrisy consistency contradiction
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