Samuel Quotes

There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve.

Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.

Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her.

Estragon: They're too bigVladimir: Perhaps you'll have socks some day

I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another.

VLADIMIR: Moron!ESTRAGON: Vermin!VLADIMIR: Abortion!ESTRAGON: Morpion!VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat!ESTRAGON: Curate!VLADIMIR: C

...The less I think of it the more certain I am.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good.

CLOV:Do you believe in the life to come?HAMM:Mine was always that.

HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That it'd be you.(Pause.)

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation

I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Estragon: And if he doesn't come?Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes.

E: Well, shall we go?V: Yes, let's go.(They do not move)

PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words.

...then much, then little, then nothing.

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

...nothing ever as much as begun, nothing ever but nothing and never, nothing ever but lifeless words.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being free from flatterers.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.

Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.

A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.

Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Shame arises from the fear of man conscience from the fear of God.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition no vanity but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.

Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it the next wish is to change again.

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.

Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.