Samuel Johnson

Quote link.: "A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing good: "A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing."
Quote link.: "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend pain value love friends: "Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing man: "A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little man good: "A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
Quote link.: "An intellectual improvement arises from leisure."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wise rich: "As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man good mankind: "As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live men teach: "Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world men: "Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little words: "Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope die reason sun mind: "Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think world nothing hate grow: "Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "ESSAY -- A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right truth think man: "Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wise wish: "Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something: "Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength work: "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength work: "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Quote link.: "He who praises everybody, praises nobody."
Quote link.: "Hope is necessary in every condition."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost: "I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship find friend man life friends alone: "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find man life alone: "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone."
Quote link.: "If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad think man hate mankind: "I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live: "I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost day look: "I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth men: "In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: integrity: "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die live rich: "It is better to live rich than to die rich."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong: "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die live time man: "It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money man today: "Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find: "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science words ideas: "Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas."
Quote link.: "Language is the dress of thought."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man alone: "Learn that the present hour alone is man's."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little people: "Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."
Quote link.: "Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience wise: "Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness right man wise: "No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first: "Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think music: "Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."
Quote link.: "Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength: "Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses."
Quote link.: "Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man love country: "Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest."
Quote link.: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Quote link.: "Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."
Quote link.: "Round numbers are always false."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first: "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first: "Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk find: "Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art find happy nothing little life nature discover: "Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong: "That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that is the wrong one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness human little life nature mind: "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."
Quote link. Other quotes about: prejudices: "There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: integrity friendship friend friends: "There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man nature mankind: "There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little good pain: "There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good intention: "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad power good education: "The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man good: "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small mind: "The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something world never: "The world is not yet exhaused let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before."
Quote link. Other quotes about: patience friendship friend friends: "To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human: "To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe never: "We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope happiness believe never: "We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend friends run: "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
Quote link.: "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope first: "What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mind: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little: "When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live life making: "When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power happiness man: "When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a"
Quote link.: "While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others."
Quote link.: "Your aspirations are your possibilities."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man good: "Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good."

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