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Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.
— Samuel Richardson
I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
— Samuel Johnson
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
— Samuel Butler
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers) — Samuel Johnson
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
— Samuel Pepys
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.
— Samuel Rutherford
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
— Samuel Butler
Removing a pebble is sometimes enough to change a destiny.
— Samuel Sagan
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
— Samuel Richardson
Tech never comes back the same.
— Samuel J. Palmisano
Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.
— Samuel R. Delany
Try. Fail. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.
— Samuel Beckett
This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.
— Samuel Alito
If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.
— Eric Samuel Timm
Love gratified is love satisfied,and love satisfied is indifference begun — Samuel Richardson
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates
— Samuel Richardson
Never mind the usedo it! — Samuel Johnson
Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.
— Samuel Reshevsky
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
— Samuel Johnson
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocencean exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
— Samuel Johnson
The present is never a happy state to any human being.
— Samuel Johnson
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
— Samuel Richardson
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
— Samuel Johnson
One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.
— Samuel Wilson
Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.
— Samuel Schmid
The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
— Samuel Butler
Chaplin is no businessman
— Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A novelist who has to defend his creation by telling a reader *But that's what really happened*, is a novelist who has failed.
— Samuel G. Freedman
If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure,
— Samuel Butler
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
— Samuel Johnson
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
— Samuel Johnson
Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.
— Samuel Rutherford
If Christ is the head of the church and we are the body, lets be disciples who master the noise.
— Eric Samuel Timm
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— Samuel Johnson
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
— Samuel Rutherford
The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
— Samuel Rutherford
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
— Samuel Johnson
When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
— Samuel Johnson
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
— Samuel Butler
The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
— Samuel George Morton
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
— Samuel Johnson
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
— Samuel Butler
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
— Samuel Butler
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
— Samuel Johnson
Fortunately I did not need affection.
— Samuel Beckett
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You are trapped in that bright moment where you learned your doom
— Samuel R. Delany
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
— Samuel Johnson
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
— Samuel Johnson
Do you believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.
— Samuel Beckett
The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.
— Samuel Beckett
It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.
— Stephen Samuel Wise
More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.
— Samuel Von Pufendorf
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
— Samuel Johnson
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
— Samuel Johnson
A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!
— Samuel Eliot Morison
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
— Samuel Johnson
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
— Samuel Smiles
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
— Samuel Smiles
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.
— Samuel Johnson
The frost performs its secret ministry,Unhelped by any wind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
— Samuel Johnson
In times of distress strengthen your heart.
— Samuel Ibn Naghrillah
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
— Samuel Beckett
A second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience
— Samuel Johnson
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
— Samuel Johnson
I never take a nap after dinnerbut when I have had a bad night,
and then the nap takes me. — Samuel Johnson
If people are busy living out myths you don't like, leave them to it.
— Samuel R. Delany
Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.
— Judah Ben Samuel Of Regensburg
The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
— Samuel Richardson
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
— Samuel Johnson
Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.
— Samuel Beckett
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
— Samuel Johnson
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
— Samuel Johnson
I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
— Samuel Johnson
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
— Samuel Butler
Suggestion is a literary strategy.
— Samuel R. Delany
Great minds like a think-The Economist- — Samuel Gompers
Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.
— Samuel Rutherford
