Great saying by great authors Quote by Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; whenwe have made…

— Samuel Johnson

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are suppliedmust admit those of fancy.

— Samuel Johnson

If Thought is capable of beingclassed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, asa mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once…

— Henry Brooks Adams

It was a chilly winter's night; And frost was glitt'ring on theground, And evening stars were twinkling bright;

— William Barnes

From disaster good fortune comes, and in good fortune lurks disaster.

— Anonymous

They are not dead! They havebut passed, Beyond the mists that blind us here, Into the new and larger life, Of that serener sphere.

— John Luckey McCreery

Here the crow starves, here the patient stag Breeds for the rifle.

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed…

— Adrienne Rich

In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. Mason Cooley

— Mason Cooley

She who does not know she isa patient lies Within a tent of green, and sleeps without a sound

— James Kirkup

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

— Edmund Burke