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Cannot Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to…
- Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
- Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
- He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed…
- Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
- People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as…
- The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to…
- There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it…
- The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener…
- One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
- None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most…
- Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will…
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will…
- Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached…
- Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape…
More Cannot Quotes
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. — Pam Brown
- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt