Quote #17823
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with...
Quote #648
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Quote #18423
Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of...
Quote #15697
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving...
Quote #11035
We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him.
Quote #7491
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the...
Quote #11154
The next best thing to being witty one’s self, is to be able to...
Quote #15738
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated...
Quote #13230
Poets generally love cats — because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.
Quote #7537
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.