Samson Quotes

• Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Temptation, Overcoming

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• An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!

  Watchman Nee

  Cutting, Men, Hair

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.79, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Crush, Strong, Hero

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.63, 谷月社

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• Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

  Malcolm X

  Fall, Men, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Fake People, Sleep, Watches

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• A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

  Helen Rowland

  Jobs, Mistake, Men

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• Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Suicide, Humorous, Savages

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sin is more dangerous than wild bears, more deadly than blazing forest fires. Ask Nebuchadnezzar, who lost his mind because he refused to deal with his pride. Ask Samson, who was reduced to a pathetic shred of a man because he never got control over the lusts of his flesh. Ask Achan and Ananias and Sapphira, who all lost their lives over “small,” secret sins.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pride, Men, Fire

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.75, Moody Publishers

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• Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair.

  Elvis Presley

  Hair, Evil, Cotton

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• When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.

  John Owen

  Heart, Reality, Should Have

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• The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.

  Nicole Krauss

  Memories, Data, Ideas

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.39, Anchor

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• The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.

  E.C. Riegel

  Money, Wall, Ignorance

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• Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Law, Justice

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.54, CUA Press

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• Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.

  Thomas Harris

  Thinking, Answers, Lions

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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• When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Feet, Want, Fabulous

  FaceBook post by Cyndi Lauper from Mar 03, 2014

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• It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems to have lost His muscle in our modern age. Did He grow tired of performing heroics? Did He wax feeble after all these years of running this whole universal show? Could it be true that God has really lost His muscle? Maybe it would be more accurate to say God lost His men.

  Eric Ludy

  Running, Spiritual, Tired

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• Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

  Randy Johnson

  Taken, Stories, Goliath

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• When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Impact, Years, Church

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was lucky I survived the motorcycle accident because I - bike went under the car. I flew out about 20 or 25 feet. I didn't have a helmet on. I hit my head on the pavement and knocked myself out, gave myself a brain concussion, screwed up my left leg. And I was - I was lucky then that I didn't get killed because I didn't have any protective clothing on whatsoever. And I took a pretty good beating. But, yeah, such was the nature of the day when the barber was called and Samson's locks were trimmed.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Feet, Car, Brain

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded every CEO. They didn't realize the kind of leverage they were doing and they didn't understand when they were really creating a real profit or a fictitious one.

  Paul Samuelson

  Real, Engineering, Creating

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• There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Get Well, Book, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]”, p.282

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• I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love Lucky Charms and Cocoa Pebbles cereal. I love my purple couch, and I love dancing. I used to have the best stuffed animals, but Samson [her dog] ate them.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Dog, Baby, Animal

  "Leah Garchik's personals". www.sfgate.com. May 26, 1997.

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• John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him

  Alissa York

  Pages, Fluent

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• In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Artist, Rocks, Ideas

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