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I beg to submit that it is the first. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

I beg to submit that it is the first.

What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s - Samuel Johnson Quotes

What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

The Irish are a fair people- they never speak well of one another - Samuel Johnson Quotes

The Irish are a fair people- they never speak well of one another

Irish

Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

Motivational Quote of the Day

The triumph of hope over experience - Samuel Johnson Quotes

The triumph of hope over experience

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society

Fraud

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship - Samuel Johnson Quotes

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause - Samuel Johnson Quotes

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause

Round numbers are always false - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Round numbers are always false

Our aspirations are our possibilities. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Aspirations Possibilities

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to w - Samuel Johnson Quotes

In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to w

Grief

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty - Samuel Johnson Quotes

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still - Samuel Johnson Quotes

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still

Fly

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Conscience Fear

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

Duty

I cannot forbear to wish, that this commotion (in the colonies) may end without bloodshed, and that the rebels may be subdued by terror rather than by violence; and, therefore, recommend such a force as may take away, not only the power, but the hope - Samuel Johnson Quotes

I cannot forbear to wish, that this commotion (in the colonies) may end without bloodshed, and that the rebels may be subdued by terror rather than by violence; and, therefore, recommend such a force as may take away, not only the power, but the hope

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw be - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw be

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change; the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change; the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again

A jest breaks no bones - Samuel Johnson Quotes

A jest breaks no bones

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs

Long-expected one and twenty, / Lingering year at length is flown. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Long-expected one and twenty, / Lingering year at length is flown.

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

Whatever you have spend less. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Whatever you have spend less.

Money

To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage - Samuel Johnson Quotes

To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

Government Tyranny

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber - Samuel Johnson Quotes

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Man

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read - Samuel Johnson Quotes

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing - Samuel Johnson Quotes

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Well, (said he), we had a good talk. BOSWELL: Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Well, (said he), we had a good talk. BOSWELL: Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons.

To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man - Samuel Johnson Quotes

To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument

Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking - Samuel Johnson Quotes

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

Life

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see - Samuel Johnson Quotes

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. - Samuel Johnson Quotes

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

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