502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 161. I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
- 162. I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
- 163. I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
- 164. I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be ...
- 165. I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, for I am afraid he is an ...
- 166. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no ...
- 167. I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile ...
- 168. I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can sh ...
- 169. If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state ...
- 170. If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
- 171. If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left ...
- 172. If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let u ...
- 173. If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post ...
- 174. If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many thing ...
- 175. If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
- 176. If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle.
- 177. If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to dilige ...
- 178. Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he ne ...
- 179. In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his brea ...
- 180. In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and att ...
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