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249 Man quotes by Samuel Johnson

• Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
• A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.
• The first years of man must make provision for the last.
• The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak…
• I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is…
• Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines…
• A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of…
• Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
• Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
• No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
• Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
• The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make…
• No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a…
• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in…
• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
• Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
• No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
• A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
• Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
• Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
• I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

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