Sam Walter Foss Quotes

Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

Sam Walter Foss

• Men

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

Sam Walter Foss

• Live
• House
• Man

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Sam Walter Foss

• Men
• Purpose
• Mountains

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

Sam Walter Foss

• You
• Where
• Drop

There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.

Sam Walter Foss

• Purple

We felt the universe wuz safe, an' God wuz on his throne.

Sam Walter Foss

• God
• Universe

I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.

Sam Walter Foss

The sweet mellifluous milking of the cow.

Sam Walter Foss

• Sweet

A hundred thousand men were ledBy one calf near three centuries dead;They followed still his crooked wayAnd lost a hundred years a day;For thus such reverence is lentTo well-established precedent.

Sam Walter Foss

• Men
• Lost

He had a startling genius, but somehow it did n't emerge;Always on the evolution of things that would n't evolve;Always verging toward some climax, but he never reached the verge;Always nearing the solution of some theme he could not solve.

Sam Walter Foss