I Samuel Quotes

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Messi is God, as a person and even more as a player. I knew him when he was a boy and I’ve watched him grow. He deserves it all.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it

I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.

I think that Congress's ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.