I Samuel Quotes

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

The truth is always multiplex.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

I'm as serious as a heart attack.

If you don't dissagree with me, how will I know I'm right?

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.

Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC

The most important quality for a judge is open- mindedness to the arguments.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

The essential doesn't change.

This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

So all things limp together for the only possible.

I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Grief is a species of idleness.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

Luck whines; labor whistles.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries.