I Samuel Quotes

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

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.

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

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.

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.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.

Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.

But the day is spent; And stars are kindling in the firmament, To us how silent--though like ours, perchance, Busy and full of life and circumstance.

Everybody has to learn that the world works in very specific ways, and you're not in charge of it.

Let me go to hell, that's all i ask.

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

The great source of pleasure is variety.

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.