Author Topic: ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes ~ (Read 6554 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** September 15, 2015, 11:34:23 AM »

A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** September 15, 2015, 11:36:18 AM »

Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** September 15, 2015, 11:39:15 AM »

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** September 15, 2015, 11:41:20 AM »

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** September 15, 2015, 11:42:20 AM »

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** September 15, 2015, 11:43:26 AM »

I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** September 15, 2015, 11:44:57 AM »

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** September 15, 2015, 11:46:58 AM »

A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** September 15, 2015, 11:48:18 AM »

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** September 15, 2015, 11:49:08 AM »

Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** September 15, 2015, 11:50:22 AM »

A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** September 15, 2015, 11:51:05 AM »

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:05:20 PM »

When two Englishmen meet their first talk is of the weather.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:05:57 PM »

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:07:44 PM »

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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