502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 481. When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I sho ...
- 482. When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
- 483. When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
- 484. When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the wea ...
- 485. When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
- 486. Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
- 487. Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
- 488. While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
- 489. Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
- 490. Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
- 491. Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
- 492. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enable ...
- 493. Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others ...
- 494. Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
- 495. Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
- 496. You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense o ...
- 497. You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
- 498. You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
- 499. You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not ...
- 500. You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not ...
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