
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
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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