Quote #7914
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost...
Category Archives: Samuel Johnson
Quote #7930
That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that is the wrong one....
Quote #7946
Do not … hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them...
Quote #7962
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a...
Quote #7978
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined...
Quote #7915
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary...
Quote #7931
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which...
Quote #7947
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates...
Quote #7963
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it...
Quote #7979
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be...