Author Topic: ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes ~ (Read 6784 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #90 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:16:28 PM »

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man because he has both enjoyments.

MysteRy · « **Reply #91 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:17:05 PM »

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.

MysteRy · « **Reply #92 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:17:39 PM »

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

MysteRy · « **Reply #93 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:18:10 PM »

The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

MysteRy · « **Reply #94 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:18:48 PM »

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

MysteRy · « **Reply #95 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:19:19 PM »

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

MysteRy · « **Reply #96 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:19:59 PM »

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

MysteRy · « **Reply #97 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:20:33 PM »

The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

MysteRy · « **Reply #98 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:21:19 PM »

Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

MysteRy · « **Reply #99 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:22:26 PM »

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

MysteRy · « **Reply #100 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:29:15 AM »

It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.

MysteRy · « **Reply #101 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:29:54 AM »

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

MysteRy · « **Reply #102 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:30:28 AM »

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

MysteRy · « **Reply #103 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:31:21 AM »

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

MysteRy · « **Reply #104 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:32:03 AM »

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

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