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Less Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Whatever you have spend less.
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons…
- Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
- My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.
- I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you…
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
- Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment,…
- As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for…
- ...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his…
- Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You…
- The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows…
- To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and…
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
- To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
- Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.
- Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
- Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes…
- I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
More Less Quotes
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- The less government we have the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Take Me Or Leave Me Accept Me Or Walk Away, Love Me Or Hate Me But Dont Make Me Feel Like Less… — Superman
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis