"Much is due to those who first broke……" — Samuel Johnson
"Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it."
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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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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't…
— Scott Adams
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My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it,…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the…
— Jimmy Carl Black
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I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.
— Lewis Black
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No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still…
— Lewis Black
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Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really…
— Emily Blunt
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Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke.
— Jimmy Buffett
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I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for…
— Drew Carey
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For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out…
— Jim Carrey
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