Author Topic: ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes ~ (Read 6673 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #120 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:01:57 AM »

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

MysteRy · « **Reply #121 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:02:46 AM »

To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.

MysteRy · « **Reply #122 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:03:29 AM »

Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

MysteRy · « **Reply #123 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:04:07 AM »

When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

MysteRy · « **Reply #124 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:04:47 AM »

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition no vanity but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.

MysteRy · « **Reply #125 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:05:33 AM »

If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

MysteRy · « **Reply #126 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:06:03 AM »

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

MysteRy · « **Reply #127 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:06:32 AM »

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

MysteRy · « **Reply #128 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:07:01 AM »

Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.

MysteRy · « **Reply #129 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:07:34 AM »

When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

MysteRy · « **Reply #130 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:08:33 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #131 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:09:10 AM »

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then.

MysteRy · « **Reply #132 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:09:44 AM »

The return of my birthday if I remember it fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

MysteRy · « **Reply #133 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:10:13 AM »

I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven.

MysteRy · « **Reply #134 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:10:46 AM »

It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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