"Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a……" — James Boswell
"Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed."
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56 Quotes by James Boswell
James Boswell has 56 quotes on this site.
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A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable…
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I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said…
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not,…
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
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A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are…
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What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily…
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments,…
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on…
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We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to…
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must…
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.…
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More Cellar Quotes
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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of…
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he…
— Samuel Butler
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of…
— Sam Abell
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A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.
— Andre Simon
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A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he…
— Robert Benchley
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I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of…
— Rose Wilder Lane
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy,…
— James Russell Lowell
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man…
— C.S. Lewis
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
— Van Wyck Brooks
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