"Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat." — Samuel Johnson
"Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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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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one of 732 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
— Walter Benjamin
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I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a…
— Jeff Bezos
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God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the…
— Kathleen Blanco
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness…
— Alain de Botton
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You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
— Rita Mae Brown
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You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket…
— Luke Bryan
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My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it.
— Michael Buble
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I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and…
— Sandra Bullock
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You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that…
— Jason Aldean
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I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things…
— Jason Aldean
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should…
— Albert Camus
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Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.
— Paula Abdul
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