I Samuel Quotes

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

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Do we mean love, when we say love?

Change is not made without inconvenience.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.

Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.

Ill give you a definite maybe.

Thus doth the ever-changing course of things Run a perpetual circle, ever turning; And that same day, that highest glory brings, Brings us unto the point of back-returning.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

In two words, impossible.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.