I Samuel Quotes

We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honord.

What are we doing here, that is the question.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.

Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.

He prayeth best who loveth best.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

And what I have, what I am, is enough, was always enough for me, and as far as my dear little sweet little future is concerned I have no qualms, I have a good time coming.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.