"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives." — Samuel Johnson
"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want…
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
— Francis Bacon
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
— Francis Bacon
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
— Honore de Balzac
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
— Sholom Aleichem
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The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
— Tommy Chong
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I…
— Eric Clapton
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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
— Oscar Wilde
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What I've learned from fatherhood is that having a son cannot, did not, change my love for The Bachelor! I…
— Jason Biggs
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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