Sam Walter Foss Quotes

“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

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

— Sam Walter Foss

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

— Sam Walter Foss

“Where shall we get religion? Beneath the open sky, the sphere of crystal silence surcharged with deity.. The midnight earth sends incense up, sweet with the breath of prayer
Go out beneath the naked night and get religion there.”

— Sam Walter Foss

“The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
The brooks for the fishers of song;
To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
The streams and the woods belong.”

— Sam Walter Foss

“One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do ... And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.”

— Sam Walter Foss

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

— Sam Walter Foss

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

— Sam Walter Foss

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

— Sam Walter Foss

“W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you? . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say hullo.”

— Sam Walter Foss

“Just drop your bucket where you are.”

— Sam Walter Foss

“A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.”

— Sam Walter Foss