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Thinks Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
- Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he…
- You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,…
- His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
- The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
- He that never thinks can never be wise.
- Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,…
- Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that…
- The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
- About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
- The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak…
- Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
- A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
- Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom…
- Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
More Thinks Quotes
- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell
- He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. — Samuel Johnson
- Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks… — Blaise Pascal
- Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are… — Robert Asprin
- There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those… — Julie Burchill
- The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby… — Eleanor Roosevelt
- One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can… — Jesse Owens
- Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth. — Friedrich Nietzsche