Samuel Doe Quotes & Sayings

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand. — Samuel Pepys

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible. — Samuel Johnson

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An officer should never speak ironically or sarcastically to an enlisted man, since the latter does not have a fair chance to answer back. The use of profanity and epithets comes under the same headings. The best argument for a man keeping his temper is that nobody else wants it; and when he voluntary throws it away, he loses a main prop to his own position. — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser. — Samuel Johnson

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others. — Samuel Johnson

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber. — Samuel Johnson

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. — Samuel Johnson

The course of true anything never does run smooth. — Samuel Butler

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life. — Stephen Samuel Wise

Passion does not compensate for ignorance. — Samuel Chadwick

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. — Samuel Prout

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick. — Samuel Johnson

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes. — Samuel Johnson

Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to Him, it is your happiness that you are well assured that he best serves his Maker, who does most good to his country and to mankind. — William Samuel Johnson

I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
Thoughts so all unlike each other;
To mutter and mock a broken charm,
To dally with wrong that does no harm. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. — Samuel Johnson