“Listen, I wanted to say, I don't need your judgment, okay? I have enough to deal with without you contributing, so can… — Jessica Verdi Copy Share Image
“How are you coming with your home library? Do you need some good ammunition on why it's so important to read? The… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
“I think I can understand that feeling about a housewife’s work being like that of Sisyphus (who was the stone rolling gentleman).… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
“I was strong in English, and thankful for it. I knew the great Dr. Johnson from his friend Mr. Boswell. There is… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr.… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“As Dr. Johnson said: “God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.” Why should you… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Dr Johnson died in 1944. The suspicion exists that he was silenced...However two federal inspectors did examine his hospital record in the… — Barry Lynes Copy Share Image
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform. — Roscoe Conkling Copy Share Image
My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr.… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
“What, then, is patriotism? “Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels,” said Dr. Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
