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Wells Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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.…
- There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be…
- The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
- Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
- It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at…
- The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to…
- The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
- Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because…
- None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most…
- Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
- What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let…
- Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.
- Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a…
- When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few…
- Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to…
- The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have…
- Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.
- There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
- There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
More Wells Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen