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Years Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
- Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a…
- These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose…
- He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to…
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
- The first years of man must make provision for the last.
- In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen…
- 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…
- What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred…
- The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day…
- The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
More Years Quotes
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in… — Paulo Coelho
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. — Charles Baudelaire
- Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures… — Benjamin Carson