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Best He Quotes by 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 attorney.
- Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
- When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
- All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse,…
- By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man,…
- You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired…
- He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
More He Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle