Quotes by Samuel Johnson about Nothing

Samuel Johnson English author

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing