FastSaying

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.


Samuel Johnson

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.
WILLIAM HENRY As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights give...
ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.
MICHELLE KWAN Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak
EPICTETUS Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak.
EPICTETUS England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN The cruelest joke in the history of the world was man being given so much reason and women were made...
COLIN GORMAN What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a...
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effo...
KNUT HAMSUN God has given you the power to be the miracle worker.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my lif...
JANE GOODALL Love for you has given me the power to forgive you!!
NEHA KOTHARI To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.
MATTHEW PRIOR But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as norma...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI I feel that God has given me a very special opportunity that I should not let go to waste. I use the...
MATTIE STEPANEK So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
VIRGINIA SATIR Deciding to retire is one of the hardest decisions I have ever made, ... I love gymnastics and compe...
BLAINE WILSON Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that ...
JAMES BOSWELL The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers - it's given them that extra ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Looking back on the last year. How much has the world given me? How little have I given to the world...
TONY BRADY After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
CHRISTIAN DIOR It has to be discovered, and they have to be given the chance to unleash the beauty that God has giv...
CARLOS SANTANA Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The judges should be the first people to respect the law, and the law has given the commission a cle...
HOSSAM BADRAWI We have a natural monopoly. We have something that nature has given us that other places don't have.
GENE SIGEL It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquit...
BUDDHA, SUTTA-PITAKA It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquit...
BUDDHA SUTTA-PITAKA Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.
GEORGE MULLER very happy about the opportunity the judge has given me.
SCOTT WEILAND If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
GEORGES GUYNEMER The advice that they've given me has definitely given me an advantage.
KARA RATLIFF The most dangerous thing in life is an incompetent that has been given a gun and a law enforcement b...
STEVEN MAGEE The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so ...
FRANCESCO TOTTI O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one thing more-a grateful heart.
GEORGE HERBERT Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
UNKNOWN Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. Mo...
OSHO [CHANDRA MOHAN JAIN] God has given every man incomparably great power to reach the highest calling in life.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart becau...
HELEN KELLER Glen has given us free rein and told us to play, as much as we can, by instinct so it is going to be...
MATT GITEAU I think every team has a prodigal son, probably. What he's given to the city as much as what he's gi...
PAT RILEY The mood is very good and very relaxed. However, having seen them play so well it has given us a lit...
FREDERIC MICHALAK The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, y...
ROBERT DALE OWEN I'm very skeptical as to the ability to reach a comprehensive agreement given how little has been ac...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE Some of the tributes that have affected me the most have come from my 'fans' - friends - men...
RUDOLPH VALENTINO I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON This is not an example of a president repealing a provision of a law that Congress has enacted ... b...
SETH WAXMAN that even the most casual of compliments can be given that extra little touch that women adore.
ISAAC ASIMOV It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly deroga...
SARA SHERIDAN We don't need to go very far in any given day to find a need, hear a request, face an enemy, or enco...
JAN DARGATZ He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
HORACE China has a lot of growth (but it is) a little more difficult in terms of rule of law and regulation...
JEFFREY BEWKES I think I am an artist. I think I am Juan Gabriel, who has given so much with my songs.
JUAN GABRIEL Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confi...
GORAN IVANISEVIC Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a m...
ANN COTTON To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
HERMANN HESSE I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this count...
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given...
JENNIE FINCH One of the things that continues to amaze me is just how much support this organization has been giv...
KATHY STEVENS My dad has given me the best gift anyone has ever given me. He gave me wings to fly.
ADRIA ARJONA This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.
MARK RYLANCE Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Given that the governor has a very small base and that this base would be very offended by signing t...
LARRY GERSTON I'm just so grateful to anyone who has donated items and everyone who has given support.
CATHY HANCOCK Wondering if this policy is demonetization or dehumanization given the fact it has created so much d...
ANUJ SOMANY Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It...
ALAN GREENSPAN The world – much too little time was given to me to wander a land so full of wonders.
MARIANA FULGER shocked to know that so many rich governments have given so little.
KOFI ANNAN It has sustained us. A lot of them care about Eric. I think it has held us up. They have given us so...
BETH EDMUNDSON A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them
NINON DE LENCLOS Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see mo...
SOCRATES We think the company has one bid they are willing to accept, given the unusual (and risky) public na...
ANTHONY GIKAS A.J. kind of has that God-given talent.
HARRY HUBBARD People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
MAX BEERBOHM I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them....
JODI PICOULT That hasn't changed, but it has just given us more ammunition to have a go at them.
AL BAXTER Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but ma...
ELLEN G. WHITE It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON The Nathan Foundation has given $923,500.
RUSSELL BAKER People were very proud of it and very complimentary, genuinely so. It has given us a greater sense o...
PETER HILL For the friends life has given me,and for the life friends have given me.
LOIS WYSE These people have given so much.
JEAN ROBERTSON Our government says people must not take law in their own hands, But has given the law in the hands ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given t...
MUHAMMAD ALI We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that...
BERTRAND RUSSELL It's hard to describe the significance John has had on our program. He's given us so much credibilit...
BRIAN CRAIG It's a very ambitious deadline. The governor has given us direction to make it a priority.
JUDE WALSH Tennis has given me soul.
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA Rich people become richer because they manage what has been given to them properly
SUNDAY ADELAJA For the friends life has given me,
and for the life friends have given me.
LOIS WYSE I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.
CINDY MARGOLIS Technology has given the dumb a tongue
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Online learning has undoubtedly given so many professionals the opportunity to learn while they work...
RAYMOND OBENG God has given us all different abilities and gifts, so that through them we can bring God’s love a...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The people here are so wonderful, generous and warm-hearted, ... They've given so much. I can never ...
JOYCE SMITH

More Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehe...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the fals...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who praises every body, praises nobody.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Whatever you have spend less.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
SAMUEL JOHNSON What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little g...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the lev...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talk...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him littl...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illust...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The endearing elegance of female friendship.
SAMUEL JOHNSON To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to thr...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too sle...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Friendship, 'the wine of life,' said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continuall...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his ut...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharg...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the publi...
SAMUEL JOHNSON "He was a very good hater."
SAMUEL JOHNSON I like a good hater.
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it posse...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much...
SAMUEL JOHNSON In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over ha...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purc...
SAMUEL JOHNSON My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispe...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore o...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that w...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignora...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The true art of memory is the art of attention.
SAMUEL JOHNSON What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
SAMUEL JOHNSON That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want...
SAMUEL JOHNSON This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let u...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagre...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many thing...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but per...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and att...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dr...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the par...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full mea...
SAMUEL JOHNSON As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his serva...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external age...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
SAMUEL JOHNSON All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hangi...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good unti...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effront...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. B...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make fa...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as m...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be aft...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves wit...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiabl...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
SAMUEL JOHNSON When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense o...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persu...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, an...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, a...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
SAMUEL JOHNSON To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and la...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bul...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly beco...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Suspicion is most often useless pain.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit tho...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely e...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom natur...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors afte...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
SAMUEL JOHNSON