Samuel Johnson Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)
Samuel Johnson quotes and sayings page 10 (author). Here's quote # 91 through 100 out of the 125 we have for him.
“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”
“Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”
“The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.”
“There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.”
“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”
“Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.”
“You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.”
“All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.”
“It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.”
“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
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