Samuel Pepys quote: "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."

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
SAMUEL PEPYS

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...
SAMUEL PEPYS

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
SAMUEL PEPYS

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age...
SAMUEL PEPYS

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to br...
SAMUEL PEPYS

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to...
SAMUEL PEPYS

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
SAMUEL PEPYS

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind m...
SAMUEL PEPYS

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
SAMUEL PEPYS

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was do...
SAMUEL PEPYS

It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure ...
SAMUEL PEPYS

My observation [is] that most men that do thrive in the world forget to take pleasure during the tim...
SAMUEL PEPYS

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
SAMUEL PEPYS

Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but...
SAMUEL PEPYS

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everyt...
SAMUEL PEPYS

I never liked you, and I always will.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN

My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. M...
SAMUEL MORSE

What God hath wrought?
SAMUEL MORSE

My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. T...
SAMUEL LOVER

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
SAMUEL LOVER

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former j...
SAMUEL LOVER

How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might,...
SAMUEL LOVER

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
SAMUEL LOVER

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. ...
SAMUEL LOVER

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
SAMUEL LOVER

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which ...
SAMUEL LOVER

I'm not a very typical singer.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
SAMUEL LARSEN

The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're ju...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
SAMUEL LARSEN

There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achiev...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously bef...
SAMUEL LARSEN

You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with ...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we'...
SAMUEL LARSEN

Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
SAMUEL LARSEN

On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense her...
SAMUEL LARSEN

The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I r...
SAMUEL LARSEN

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're hav...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
SAMUEL LARSEN

Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play ...
SAMUEL LARSEN

Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
SAMUEL LARSEN

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

The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
SAMUEL LARSEN

I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV...
SAMUEL LARSEN

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of i...
SAMUEL HORSLEY

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
SAMUEL HOPKINS

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
SAMUEL HOPKINS

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, ...
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a w...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice a...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liber...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER

You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER

When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER

Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Death and the dice level all distinctions.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. S...
SAMUEL DASH

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I migh...
SAMUEL DASH

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
SAMUEL DASH

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if ...
SAMUEL DASH

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wan...
SAMUEL DASH

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay...
SAMUEL DASH

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its out...
SAMUEL DASH

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di...
SAMUEL DASH

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL

The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL

The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace an...
SAMUEL CHASE

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
SAMUEL CHASE

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER

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

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in ...
SAMUEL BECKETT

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg...
SAMUEL BECKETT

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I alw...
SAMUEL BECKETT

Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETT

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on...
SAMUEL BECKETT

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETT

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
SAMUEL BECKETT

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETT

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to r...
SAMUEL BECKETT

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETT

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
SAMUEL BECKETT

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETT

I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left co...
SAMUEL BARNETT

I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings...
SAMUEL BARNETT

In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broad...
SAMUEL BARNETT

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you c...
SAMUEL BARNETT

I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky l...
SAMUEL BARNETT

The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly reb...
SAMUEL BARNETT

My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career t...
SAMUEL BARNETT

I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if ...
SAMUEL BARNETT

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind m...
SAMUEL BARNETT

I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I...
SAMUEL BARNETT

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to b...
SAMUEL BARNETT

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
SAMUEL BARNETT

I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
SAMUEL BARNETT

Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the lang...
SAMUEL BARNETT

It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it&#...
SAMUEL BARNETT

This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determi...
SAMUEL BARNETT

I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.
SAMUEL BARNETT

Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets ...
SAMUEL BARNETT

I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and...
SAMUEL BARNETT

Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fin...
SAMUEL BARNETT

I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.
SAMUEL BARNETT

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to d...
SAMUEL BARBER

I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York R...
SAMUEL BARBER

I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a ...
SAMUEL BARBER

As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write...
SAMUEL BARBER

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual sto...
SAMUEL BARBER

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the lates...
SAMUEL BARBER

There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
SAMUEL BARBER

I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being...
SAMUEL BARBER

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unplea...
SAMUEL BARBER

If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
SAMUEL ALITO

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
SAMUEL ALITO

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secul...
SAMUEL ALITO

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation...
SAMUEL ALITO

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
SAMUEL ALITO

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decisio...
SAMUEL ALITO

It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through thei...
SAMUEL ADAMS

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinio...
SAMUEL ADAMS

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a shar...
SAMUEL ADAMS

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ...
SAMUEL ADAMS

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
SAMUEL ADAMS

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peac...
SAMUEL ADAMS

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole teno...
SAMUEL ADAMS

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS

I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
SAMUEL ADAMS

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
SAMUEL BUTLER

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting win...
SAMUEL LOVER

In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
XAVIER SAMUEL

My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
XAVIER SAMUEL

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of...
XAVIER SAMUEL

I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we k...
XAVIER SAMUEL

I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it h...
XAVIER SAMUEL

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
SAMUEL BECKETT

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
SAMUEL LOVER

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality ...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
SAMUEL CHASE

I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
SAMUEL LARSEN

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of natio...
SAMUEL SMILES

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself...
SAMUEL SMILES

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
SAMUEL SMILES

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
SAMUEL SMILES

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we ...
SAMUEL SMILES

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road...
SAMUEL SMILES

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gi...
SAMUEL SMILES

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing...
SAMUEL SMILES

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

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
SAMUEL SMILES

Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - th...
SAMUEL SMILES

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas th...
SAMUEL SMILES

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.

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Samuel Pepys

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.

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