502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 241. Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by c ...
- 242. Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
- 243. Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignora ...
- 244. Men only become friends by community of pleasures.
- 245. Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.
- 246. Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who hav ...
- 247. More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his serva ...
- 248. Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
- 249. Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
- 250. Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- 251. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want ...
- 252. Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
- 253. network: anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices between the intersections
- 254. Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in ...
- 255. No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature ...
- 256. No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature ...
- 257. No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
- 258. No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
- 259. No man ever yet became great by imitation.
- 260. No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
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