Samuel Quotes

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

What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place. — Samuel

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 use
do 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 innocence
an 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 BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra — Samuel Shem

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest. — Samuel Johnson

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

ACCEPTATION (ACCEPTA'TION) n.s.[from accept.]1. Reception, whether good or bad. This large sense seems now wholly out of use. — 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

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures. — 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

Society is held together by communication and information. Samuel Johnson — Ian Leslie

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

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man. — Samuel Smiles

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. — Samuel Johnson

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler

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

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. — Samuel Johnson

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

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will. — Samuel Tuke

Law XIII. THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE — Samuel Shem

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination. — Samuel Johnson

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

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still. — Samuel Johnson

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 dinner
but 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

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill. — Samuel Garth