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Best Something Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the…
- 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…
- So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
- Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there…
- Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow…
- The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
- I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.
- Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
- Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something…
- The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
- 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…
- Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of…
- I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but…
- The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
- Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language
- 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 Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen