If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.... — James Boswell Copy Share Image
What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“His OFELLUS in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
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