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There are 255 quotes for the author Samuel Johnson

Quotations 141 to 160 of 255 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Subject: Wealth

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Subject: Contentment

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Subject: Advice

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Subject: Politics Politicians

This man [Lord Chesterfield] I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.
Subject: Books

As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Subject: Proverb

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Subject: Human Nature

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Subject: Philosophical

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

The realisation that one is to be hanged in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.

Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
Subject: Judgment

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Subject: Parents

I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Subject: Human Nature

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

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