Samson Quotes

“Prawda jest córą czasu poczętą w przypadkowym i krótkotrwałym romansie ze zbiegiem okoliczności.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Lux perpetua

“Don't let your girlfriend cut your hair!”
― Stephen Colbert, I Am America

“I’m not trying to con kids into optimism or false confidence. I really believe this stuff. My view of violence and victory in children’s stories hinges entirely on my faith. Samson lost his eyes and died … but he has new eyes in the resurrection. Israel was enslaved in Egypt, but God sent a wizard far more powerful than Gandalf to save His people. Christ took the world’s darkness on his shoulders and died in agony. But then … Easter.

In the end, good wins. Always.”
― N.D. Wilson

“...it occurred to me that maybe Samson's hair wasn't the source of his strength; maybe it was the symbol of his strength. And maybe when Delilah cut off his hair, he didn't lose his power because he lost his hair; he just woke up the next morning and looked in the mirror, and suddenly for the life of him couldn't remember who he was.”
― Sarah Thebarge

“Always remember: Power in the wrong hands can destroy the owner. The same power that gave victory to Samson is what destroyed him.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“The spirit of Judas is the same with that of Delilah. Judas could not love Jesus and Delilah could not love Samson because money have exchanged hands and a contract of death was signed. Beware of both!!!”
― Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

“if he demolished pillars, it was when he burst
from the world of your body into the narrower world.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

“I wanted to ask you if you know the answer to a riddle."

"Fire away."

"Samson told it. The strong guy in the Bible? It goes like this--"

"'Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.' That's the one?"

"Yeah, it is. How'd you know--?"

"Oh, I've been around the block a time or two. Listen to this:

'Samson and a lion got in attack,
And Samson climbed up on the lion's back.
Well, you've read about lion killin men with their paws,
But Samson put his hands round the lion's jaws!
He rode that lion 'til the beast fell dead,
And the bees made honey in the lion's head.'

That answer to your question, friend?"

"Wow! Good song! Where'd you hear it?"

"Oh, Aaron knows them all. He was hanging around Bleecker Street back before Bob Dylan knew how to blow more than open G on his Hohner. At least, if you believe HIM."

"It's an old spiritual. By the way, you're in check, fatso."

"Not for long."

"So the answer is a lion."

"Wrong. Only HALF the answer. Samson's Riddle is a DOUBLE, my friend. The other half of the answer is honey. Get it?"

"Yes, I think so.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“Susannah: (sotto voce) Everybody's a goddam critic.
Jake: Blaine, I have one more.
Blaine: EXCELLENT.
Jake: Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came sweetness.
Blaine: (amused) THIS RIDDLE COMES FROM THE HOLY BOOK KNOWN AS 'OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE OF KING JAMES.' IT WAS MADE BY SAMSON THE STRONG. THE EATER IS A LION; THE SWEETNESS IS HONEY, MADE BY BEES WHICH HIVED IN THE LION'S SKULL. NEXT? YOU STILL HAVE TIME, JAKE.
Jake: (shaking his head negatively) I've told them all. I'm done.
Blaine: (as John Wayne) SHUCKS, L'IL TRAILHAND, THAT'S A PURE-D SHAME. LOOKS LIKE I WIN THAT THAR GOOSE, UNLESS SOMEBODY ELSE CARES TO SPEAK UP. WHAT ABOUT YOU, OY OF MID-WORLD? GOT ANY RIDDLES, MY LITTLE BUMBLER BUDDY?”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“Nothing dishonourable, impure, unworthy
Our God, our law, my nation, or my self
The last of me or not can not warrant”
― John Milton, Samson Agonistes

“Vasilli had often wondered if the secret of Ladislav’s power was, like Samson, held within his hair. And what would happen if he shaved it off.”
― Amy Kuivalainen, Cry of the Firebird

“W tym samym momencie Samson Miodek wyciągnął potężne ramiona, ułapił dwóch sowinieckich knechtów za czupryny i gruchnął ich głowami o blat, aż podskoczyły i posypały się naczynia. Smetiak, wykazując refleks, chwycił ze stołu lipową misę i z całej siły walnął nią olbrzyma w czoło. Misa pękła na dwoje. Samson pomrugał oczami.
- Gratuluję, dobry człowieku - powiedział. - Udało ci się mnie wkurwić.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Lux perpetua

“... The day will come when you will also die, and all the people who were in the city street today will die. The child will also die; And with them all their logic, their words, their discourse, and their attainment. Only one shall live forever: whom I call the words of truth, I, the Levite.
Samson stared at him and turned his head as usual as he tried to grasp a difficult matter.
"You despise me and my deeds and my homeland, the judge," said the Levite, "Your wisdom is great, but it is short. You are mighty, but the measure of your strength is one day: there was evening and there was morning, and people who did not know Samson gave birth. And I and my homeland – we are like worms in your eyes: we wander from country to country, whispering, and drawing line by line on the skin of goats. But only what I have gathered in prayer and written on a piece of leather will he live long, and this is what people will call words of truth, and all other things are like smoke.”
― Jabotinsky. Ze'ev