I Samuel Quotes

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

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

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

No one ever became great by imitation.

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

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

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

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.

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

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

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.