Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek."
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"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek."
Samuel Johnson
"None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence."
Samuel Johnson
"O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do."
Samuel Johnson
"A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."
Samuel Johnson
"Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears."
Samuel Johnson
"Round numbers are always false."
Samuel Johnson
"Example is more efficacious than precept."
Samuel Johnson
"He that has much to do will do something wrong."
Samuel Johnson
"Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves."
Samuel Johnson
"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."
Samuel Johnson
"Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful."
Samuel Johnson
"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult."
Samuel Johnson
"One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts."
Samuel Johnson
"For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
Samuel Johnson
"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
Samuel Johnson
"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."
Samuel Johnson
"Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
Samuel Johnson
"Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us."
Samuel Johnson
"Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it the next wish is to change again."
Samuel Johnson
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
Samuel Johnson
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