I Samuel Quotes

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

Let's have some new cliches.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

When I saw the script [of The Man], I saw the character and knew I could do the character. It's a relationship movie, which is also what I love to do. That's what attracts me to projects.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

We all are born mad. Some remain so.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view.

The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

There will be associations and partnerships between some Muslim countries and some Christian countries. Those already exist. And they may shift as different regimes come and go and interests change.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

Better to be safe than sorry.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

Gentlemen, include me out.

Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

Truth allows no choice.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.