"No man was more foolish when he had……" — Samuel Johnson
"No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had"
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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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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In…
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
— Aeschylus
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Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like…
— Bill Bryson
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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