I Samuel Quotes

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

I never liked you, and I always will.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.

Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.

Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.

Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

Hurry is the death of Prayer.

The LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

All has not been said and never will be.

What do we do now, now that we are happy?

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

In times of distress strengthen your heart.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Round numbers are always false.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.