Samuel Quotes

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.

This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.

Man is a Creature of a wilful Head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.

So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire.

Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

The wise are above books.

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.

There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.

Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.

Heroes? Don't believe in them.

The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.

I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived.

I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.

Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

Destroy the old files, but make copies first.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

I don't want to be surrounded by 'yes men'. I want people who'll disagree with me, even if it costs them their jobs.

Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

[when asked by his secretary if she should destroy all files that were over ten years old] Yes, but keep copies.

Keep a stiff upper chin.

The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.

He treats me like the dirt under my feet.

Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go.

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.

A Hospital isn't any place to end up being sick.

This business is dog eat dog and nobody is gonna eat me.