Samuel Foote Quotes

#1. Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

Samuel Foote

#2. Death and the dice level all distinctions.

Samuel Foote

#3. When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Samuel Foote

#4. There are two key areas that boil down life. Our relationships with people and the relationships with ourselves.

Matthew Donnelly

#5. A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases.

John Irving

#6. I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

Brandon T. Jackson

#7. Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

Milton Friedman

#8. The bottom line is a by-product of taking care of your main product - your customers.

Ron Kaufman

#9. The people in our life is like the mountain and the river. Some people will stay as others will leave. Some will travel away and make their way back to you.

Touaxia Vang

#10. He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.

Samuel Foote

#11. Born in a cellar ... and living in a garret.

Samuel Foote

#12. When he pressed his lips to her heart, she wanted to weep.

Nora Roberts

#13. So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

Samuel Foote

#14. He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.

Samuel Foote

#15. He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Samuel Foote

#16. Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

James David Barber

#17. I don't respect my husband because he is the man and I am the woman, and it's my "place" to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too.

Rachel Held Evans

#18. One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

Samuel Foote