Samuel Johnson Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)
Samuel Johnson quotes and sayings page 9 (author). Here's quote # 81 through 90 out of the 125 we have for him.
“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.”
“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.”
“The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.”
“Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.”
“To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
“You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
“A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”
“Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.”
“When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.”
“You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.”
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