Author Topic: ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes ~ (Read 6556 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #105 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:32:34 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #106 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:33:08 AM »

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.

MysteRy · « **Reply #107 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:33:57 AM »

Marriages would in general be as happy and often more so if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.

MysteRy · « **Reply #108 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:34:29 AM »

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

MysteRy · « **Reply #109 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:35:41 AM »

The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.

MysteRy · « **Reply #110 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:36:20 AM »

Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #111 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:36:56 AM »

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

MysteRy · « **Reply #112 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:37:33 AM »

Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

MysteRy · « **Reply #113 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:58:08 AM »

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone.

MysteRy · « **Reply #114 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:58:39 AM »

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.

MysteRy · « **Reply #115 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:59:08 AM »

It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquillity.

MysteRy · « **Reply #116 on:** September 16, 2015, 10:59:39 AM »

Read over your compositions and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine strike it out.

MysteRy · « **Reply #117 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:00:07 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #118 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:00:35 AM »

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #119 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:01:17 AM »

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

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