I Samuel Quotes

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

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

I don't run around shooting people. Much. I only shoot two people a year. Maybe.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come

God makes stars. I just produce them.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

The patient is the one with the disease

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.

We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.