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Samuel Palmer Quotes

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

Samuel Palmer
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Samuel Palmer (1710). “Moral Essays on Some of the Most Curious and Significant English, Scotch, and Foreign Proverbs”, p.8

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

Samuel Palmer
Art, Said, Has Beens

When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve not to be discouraged, for resolution is the mother of fortitude, and not only necessary to our support, but very much conducive to our deliverance.

Samuel Palmer
Mother, Struggle, Adversity

When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

Samuel Palmer
Wall, Moon, Years
"The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher". Book by Alfred H. Palmer, London, 1892.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Samuel Palmer
Life, Eye, Advice
Samuel Palmer (1710). “Moral Essays on Some of the Most Curious and Significant English, Scotch, and Foreign Proverbs”, p.25

There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up little room, keep quiet when they are not wanted, and, when taken up, bring us face to face with the choicest men who ever lived, at their choicest moments.

Samuel Palmer
Taken, Book, Men

I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

Samuel Palmer
Sitting Down, Matter, Plans
Palmer, Samuel (1985). “The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer”, Manchester : Carcanet with MidNAG

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

Samuel Palmer
White, Shadow, Etching
"The Letters of Samuel Palmer". Book edited by Raymond Lister, Oxford, Letter to Thomas Oldham Barlow (1876), 1974.

A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lyon.

Samuel Palmer
Cat, Lions, May
"Moral Essays on Some of the Most Curious and Significant English, Scotch, and Foreign Proverbs".

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

Samuel Palmer
Cities, Pleasure, Poetry Is
Palmer, Samuel (1985). “The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer”, Manchester : Carcanet with MidNAG

Will you not, as a loyal student of dear old Baylor, lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life, come back to your alma mater, renew former associations and friendships, and catch that Baylor spirit again?

Samuel Palmer
Usual, Baylor, Care

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