« All Persist Quotes · Samuel Johnson's Page
Persist Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
More Persist Quotes
- This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
- Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. — Mortimer Adler
- The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. — William Blake
- If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? — Taylor Caldwell
- For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why?… — Albert Camus
- There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. — Vinton Cerf
- Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. — Lord Chesterfield
- Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do… — Walt Kelly