502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 181. In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
- 182. In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
- 183. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
- 184. In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn t ...
- 185. In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
- 186. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dr ...
- 187. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, an ...
- 188. It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
- 189. It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might ...
- 190. It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in ...
- 191. It is better to live rich, than to die rich.
- 192. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- 193. It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
- 194. It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The ...
- 195. It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to ...
- 196. It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
- 197. It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions whi ...
- 198. It is more from carelessness about the truth than from intentional lying that there is so much false ...
- 199. It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
- 200. It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an ...
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