Common Quote by Samuel Johnson

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

— Samuel Johnson

He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed,…

— Samuel Johnson

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as…

— Samuel Johnson

It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit… But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque…

— Henry David Thoreau

You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady,…

— Gail Mazur

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless…

— John Cassian

I wanna live like Arnold, Willis and Mr. Drummond... And keep my paper sturdy, big birds and tight herbs.

— Pimp C

Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft…

— Owen Feltham

“An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and…

— Steve Goodier