I Samuel Quotes

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

"I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race."

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

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

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

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

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.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

Hunger is never delicate.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.