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Over Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- 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…
- I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- 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…
- Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied…
- I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and…
- A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
- 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…
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that…
- He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention…
- Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in…
- The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed…
- 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…
- A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
- Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
- It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring…
- The triumph of hope over experience.
- So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall…
- Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they…
More Over Quotes
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough