"If I had no duties, and no reference……" — Samuel Johnson
"If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman."
—
Samuel Johnson
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
-
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
-
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
-
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
-
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
-
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
-
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
-
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
-
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
-
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
-
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
-
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
See all 1,266 quotes by Samuel Johnson »
More Briskly Quotes
This quote is filed under Briskly Quotes,
one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them…
— Primo Levi
-
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about…
— Terry Teachout
-
Will it, and set to work briskly.
— Friedrich Schiller
-
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
— Baltasar Gracian
-
These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas,…
— Brenda Ueland
-
As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.
— Harvey Mackay
-
'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as…
— Emily Dickinson
-
In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the…
— Alan Coren
-
Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never…
— Frances Hardinge
-
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
-
Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the…
— Jeanne DuPrau
See all 24 Briskly Quotes »