I Samuel Quotes

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lyon.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.

Each of you, Jew and gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in the sacred war should do so now.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.