Animal Quote by Samuel Johnson

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.

— Gilles Menage

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall…

— Joseph Addison

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

— John French Sloan

Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to…

— Samuel Johnson

False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and…

— Samuel Johnson

As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism.…

— Samuel Johnson

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

— Samuel Johnson

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

— Samuel Johnson