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None Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
- Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
- We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- 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…
- Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
- None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
- None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
- Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
- It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of…
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made…
- Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made…
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; whenwe have made it,…
More None Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The… — Swami Vivekananda
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. — Simone de Beauvoir
- None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno
- We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond… — Barack Obama