Bible: Hebrew Samson

Famous quotes containing the words hebrew samson, hebrew and/or samson:

    If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
    —Bible: Hebrew Samson, in Judges, 14:18.

    To the men who had answered his riddle, “Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.”

    They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
    —Bible: Hebrew Jeremiah, 5:8.

    Referring to the corruption of morals in Jerusalem.

    Jack, eating rotten cheese, did say,
    ‘Like Samson I my thousands slay.’
    Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)