I Samuel Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

Grief is a species of idleness.

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

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

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

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

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

Habit is a great deadener.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Words are all we have.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.

Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre friends and allies.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose.

The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.

The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

Two in distressmake sorrow less.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.