Author Topic: ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes ~ (Read 6646 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #75 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:27:36 PM »

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

MysteRy · « **Reply #76 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:28:34 PM »

One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

MysteRy · « **Reply #77 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:29:38 PM »

Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue.

MysteRy · « **Reply #78 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:07:29 PM »

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.

MysteRy · « **Reply #79 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:08:08 PM »

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

MysteRy · « **Reply #80 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:09:26 PM »

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

MysteRy · « **Reply #81 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:10:36 PM »

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

MysteRy · « **Reply #82 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:11:26 PM »

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

MysteRy · « **Reply #83 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:11:56 PM »

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

MysteRy · « **Reply #84 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:12:26 PM »

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

MysteRy · « **Reply #85 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:12:57 PM »

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

MysteRy · « **Reply #86 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:13:45 PM »

O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

MysteRy · « **Reply #87 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:14:15 PM »

An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

MysteRy · « **Reply #88 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:14:47 PM »

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

MysteRy · « **Reply #89 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:15:34 PM »

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .

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