I Samuel Quotes

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

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

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

The stars that have most glory have no rest.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

To Him I owe my life and breath, And all the joys I have; He makes me triumph over death, And saves me from the grave.

I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn.

He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Try again. Fail again. Try better.

There was nothing dark and hidden about Jesus. He was and is the Light of the world, and He welcomed the light.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.

People are bloody ignorant apes.

He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.