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Too Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we…
- The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to…
- His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
- 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,…
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite…
- The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
- Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape…
- You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the…
- As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.…
- The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last…
- Virtue is too often merely local.
- He that has too much to do will do something wrong.
- Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
- 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…
- Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
- There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to…
- There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art…
More Too Quotes
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Never show too much love for anyone because it creates a non curable pain when they start avoiding YOU. — Nishan Panwar
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- You looked into my eyes and whispered that you wanted to be with me, all my heart wanted to do was say… — Superman
- Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right. — Nishan Panwar
- I used too be the girl that would be soo happy to walk into the classroom and say'guess who just walked in… — Jasmine
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius