Samuel Quotes

Retirement from Job does not mean retirement from life! It is the beginning not an end!

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Advice is like snow the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

When angry count four when very angry swear.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.

When someone does something well applaud I You will make two people happy.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can.

I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood When fond recollection presents them to view.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practised.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.

Every one that was in distress and every one that was in debt and every one that was discontented gathered themselves unto him and he became a captain over them.

There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.

For dhrames always go by conthraries my dear.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed.

Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.

What begins in fear usually ends in folly.

The cause of freedom is the cause of God.

Friendship is like money easier made than kept.

Friendship is the perfection of love and superior to love it is love purified exalted proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love Madam may and love does often stop short of friendship.

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other and both together make up one whole.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

When someone does something good applaud! You will make two people happy.

It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.

An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

Only the wise possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.

Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.

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

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.