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Other Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a…
- There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
- The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
- High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own…
- Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
- Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a…
- Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
- I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done…
- To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be…
- Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
- Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
- Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
- Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief…
- Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
- Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.
- Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to…
- Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
- 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…
More Other Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Friendship is not only about sharing each and everything having long conversation, hanging out, its about having complete trust in each other… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle