"Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke……" — Samuel Johnson
"Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us."
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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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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the…
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My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in…
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And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any…
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun…
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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a…
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