“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrume...” — Samuel Butler Quote

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

“The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.”

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

“I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”

“The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.”

“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”