I Samuel Quotes

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

Her skin was white as leprosy.

I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

Fail, fail again, fail better.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

Character is itself a fortune.

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

Language is the dress of thought.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.