The Way of All Flesh Quotes by Samuel Butler

There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler To me it seems that those who are happy in this world are better and more lovable people than those who are not. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler Youth is like spring, an overpraised season. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage--but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. ~ The Way of All Flesh by 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. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

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