502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 221. Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
- 222. Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and reme ...
- 223. Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the origi ...
- 224. Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away pa ...
- 225. Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of succ ...
- 226. Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
- 227. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
- 228. Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorrow, or contests upon q ...
- 229. Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent.
- 230. Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown awa ...
- 231. Life is very short, and very uncertain; let us spend it as well as we can.
- 232. Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himsel ...
- 233. Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
- 234. Long customs are not easily broken: He that attempts to change the course of his own life very often ...
- 235. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- 236. Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attai ...
- 237. Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
- 238. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
- 239. Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the lev ...
- 240. Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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