I Samuel Quotes

If youth only knew, if age only could.

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

The best of a bad bargain.

We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.

The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them.

Surviving is the only glory in war.