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A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.
— Samuel Johnson
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
— Samuel Johnson
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
— Samuel Johnson
I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
— Samuel Johnson
The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
— Samuel Johnson
ADIAPHORY (ADIA'PHORY) n.s.[Gr.]Neutrality; indifference.
— Samuel Johnson
HAMM: We're not beginning to ... to ... mean something?
CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something!
(Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one! — Samuel Beckett
CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something!
(Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one! — Samuel Beckett
There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.
— Samuel R. Delany
Judge Samuel Alito's accomplishments in life are the embodiment of the American dream.
— Frank Lautenberg
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ALKALI (A'LKALI) n.s.[The word alkali comes from an herb, called by the Egyptians kali; by us glasswort.] This
— Samuel Johnson
Judge [Samuel Alito], there's a genuine struggle going on well beyond you, well beyond the Congress, in America about how to read the Constitution.
— Joe Biden
Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.
— Samuel Beckett
It's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's
— Samuel R. Delany
From the meanest creature one departs wiser, richer, more conscious of one's blessings.
— Samuel Beckett
For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.
— Samuel Lover
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
— Samuel Hoffenstein
Clov: If I don't kill the rat, he'll die.
Hamm: That's right. — Samuel Beckett
Hamm: That's right. — Samuel Beckett
To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.
— Samuel Goldwyn
Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.
— Samuel R. Delany
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.
— Samuel Beckett
It's not me, it's not true, it's not me, I'm far.
— Samuel Beckett
What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.
— Samuel
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
— Samuel Adams
The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
— Samuel Smiles
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
— Samuel Beckett
If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
— Samuel Beckett
Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.
— Samuel Goldwyn
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates
— Samuel Richardson
If you detect something mindless about American education, it's because the mind has been taken out of it. Only visible behavior counts.
— Samuel L. Blumenfeld
ADJUTOR (ADJU'TOR) n.s.[adjutor, Lat.] A helper.Dict. ADJUTORY (ADJU'TORY) adj.[adjutorius, Lat.] That which helps.Dict.
— Samuel Johnson
That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the
good old days when we wished we were dead. — Samuel Beckett
good old days when we wished we were dead. — Samuel Beckett
ACCEPTATION (ACCEPTA'TION) n.s.[from accept.]1. Reception, whether good or bad. This large sense seems now wholly out of use.
— Samuel Johnson
Reach out a hand to your brother, for the unselfish look out for their fellow man.
— Samuel S. Sumner
What is one man's gain is another's loss.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.
— Samuel Beckett
Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.
— Harold Bloom
Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!
— Samuel Johnson
Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition.
— Eric Samuel Timm
Not having any drink about ain't the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body's perspective.
— Samuel Snoek-Brown
Personally I always preferred Lipton's.
— Samuel Beckett
Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Indolence is the devil's cushion.
— Samuel Johnson
A novelist who has to defend his creation by telling a reader *But that's what really happened*, is a novelist who has failed.
— Samuel G. Freedman
There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
— Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.
— Samuel Austin Allibone
O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
— Samuel Johnson
Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.
— Samuel Johnson
It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
— Samuel Beckett
Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.
— Samuel Beckett
APHETA (APHE'TA) n.s.[with astrologers.] The name of the plant, which is imagined to be the giver or disposer of life in a nativity.Dict.
— Samuel Johnson
Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
— Samuel West
More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.
— Samuel Von Pufendorf
I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.
— Samuel J. Palmisano
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
— Samuel Johnson
The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7)
— Beth Moore
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
— Samuel Smiles
Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
— Samuel Adams
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
— Samuel Butler
Sure my love is all crostLike a bud in the frostAnd there's no use at all in my going to bed,For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!
— Samuel Lover
Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago.
— Samuel Smiles
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
— Samuel Butler
To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written.
— Terry Teachout
Presumptuous bastard,' Tak said. 'Sunset? He might at least wait and see if there's a tomorrow morning.
— Samuel R. Delany
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
— Harold Pinter
War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.
— Samuel Snoek-Brown
[Samuel Prescott was] returning from a lady friend's house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m.
— John M. Murrin
Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.
— Samuel R. Delany
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
AMISSION (AMI'SSION) n.s.[amissio, Lat.]Loss.
— Samuel Johnson
I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.
— Samuel Mockbee
something got dug up, and whoever's responsible put the shovel in our hands and walked away laughing.
— Samuel Sattin
I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
— Samuel Barnett
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."
— Samuel Rutherford
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
— Samuel Johnson
I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
— Samuel Barnett
In God's school we learn through the heart rather than through the head, and by faith rather than logic.
— Samuel Logan Brengle
Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
With many a fall shall linger near. — Samuel Rogers
A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
With many a fall shall linger near. — Samuel Rogers
To do something is in every man's power.
— Samuel Johnson
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
— Samuel Butler
Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law.
— Samuel Butler
Condemned to Hope's delusive mine,
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blasts or slow decline
Our social comforts drop away. — Samuel Johnson
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blasts or slow decline
Our social comforts drop away. — Samuel Johnson
Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
— Samuel Beckett