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I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will never do any good.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 146 | Rank: 0 | Fav

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 148 | Rank: 0 | Fav

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 134 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 183 | Rank: 0 | Fav

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert...

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 128 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 130 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 132 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 150 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 150 | Rank: 0 | Fav

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 150 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 145 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 139 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 158 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 144 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 156 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 160 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 161 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 150 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 152 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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