Marriage Quote by Samuel Johnson

We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day.…

— Joe McNally

Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The…

— Aristotle

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance…

— Samuel Johnson

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage;…

— Samuel Johnson

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

— Samuel Johnson

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into…

— Samuel Johnson

Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

— Samuel Johnson

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

— Samuel Johnson

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

— Samuel Johnson

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be…

— Samuel Johnson

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of…

— Samuel Johnson

Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards…

— Samuel Johnson