Counterfeit Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Counterfeit Greater Mankind Pleasure
“I live in an unethical society that coarsens the sensibilities and thwarts the capacities for goodness of most people but makes available for minority… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us… — Madame de Lambert Copy Share Image
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Equally condemned, in wealthy Western nations, is materialism that degrades the human mind and spirit - that can, in fact, in an age of… — H.W. Crocker III Copy Share Image
All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“How little is requisite to supply the necessities of nature? And in a view to pleasure, what comparison between the unbought satisfaction of conversation,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures,… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality. — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
“the Secret Service trains its agents to identify counterfeit bills by having them handle every possible kind of real REAL bill. Old ones. New… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,… — John Clare Copy Share Image
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“The idea of money is older than the idea of counterfeit money, but older, perhaps, by no more than a few minutes.” — St. Clair McKelway Copy Share Image
The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
