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Thing Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as…
- 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…
- The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the…
- Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
- A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has,…
- Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do…
- When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
- I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
- The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
- Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; -from fear of its being abused.
- 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…
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let…
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