I Samuel Quotes

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

[Dirk Gently] just doesn't understand social cues.

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

I want to commend the [Federalist] Society for bringing together the best minds from right, left, and center to debate the most pressing legal issues of the day.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

I don't get the great story line, action, mystery scripts; I get comedies. And relationship comedies are what I do. It's what attracted me to American Pie.

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.