Samuel Quotes

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

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

It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.