Quote #23124
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined...
Category Archives: Samuel Johnson
Quote #15811
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into...
Quote #15260
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Quote #14981
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the...
Quote #14878
You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are...
Quote #14560
A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
Quote #14164
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put...
Quote #14046
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes...
Quote #14060
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where...
Quote #13697
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.