Logo
Quote by Samuel Butler
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the inst

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Life
Author
Samuel Butler
Read Quote

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Letters (writing)
Author
Samuel Butler
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Experience
category

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. – Heinrich Heine

Category:
Experience

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. – Ayrton Senna

Category:
Experience

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before. – Leslie Fiedler

Category:
Experience

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion. – Albert Einstein

Category:
Experience

Random Quotes

Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be? – Author Unknown

Category:
Perspective

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on The Simpsons, for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what Im doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, Ill stay after class for another hour or two. – Hank Azaria

Category:
alone

Who covets more, is evermore a slave. – Robert Herrick

Category:
Consumerism

Can you find another market like this? Where, with your one rose, you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? – Rumi

Category:
Rumi