Samuel Quotes

Dying for dark — and the darker the Worse. Strange.

I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.

The end of a life is always vivifying.

My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.

Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most

I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.

Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

Estragon: Suppose we repented. Vladimir: Repented what? Estragon: Oh...(He reflects.) We wouldn’t have to go into the details. Vladimir: Our being born?

Estragon: Nothing to be done.

That penny farthing hell you call your mind

All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability.

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.

Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.

God is love. Yes or no? No.

Adulterers, take warning, never admit.

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk about it.

Lick your neighbor as yourself!

We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.

It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States.

The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

History is a bucket of ashes.

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.