I Samuel Quotes

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

You fail to overlook the crucial point.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.

Social sorrow loses half its pain.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.