"Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield……" — Samuel Johnson
"Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull."
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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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More Bull Quotes
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I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
— David Bailey
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old…
— Buffalo Bill
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I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking…
— Ben Affleck
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
— Garth Brooks
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
— Rita Mae Brown
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In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present,…
— James Buchan
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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our…
— Warren Buffett
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I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.
— James Caan
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As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is…
— Ron Chernow
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Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're…
— Tori Amos
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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull…
— Dennis Wholey
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Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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