I Samuel Quotes

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.

Our life is a gift from God. What we do with that life is our gift to God.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

I gave up before birth.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

To what will love not stoop!

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

Let man be true and every god a liar.

They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

They stayed away in droves.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

There is a statue of limitation.

Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

The insolence of wealth will creep out.