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Samuel Johnson
It is better...
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Love is the...
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Source: Quoted in:...
Milton, Madam, was...
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon...
Life cannot subsist...
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Source:
-- Samuel...
Is not a...
Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has...
It is easy...
It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it...
Man is not...
Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Source: Imlac, in The...
Much may be...
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
Source: Referring to Lord...
Life protracted is...
Life protracted is protracted woe.
Source: The Vanity of Human Wishes.
-- Samuel...
It is better...
It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
It is no...
It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches...
Marriage has many...
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Source: Rasselas, Ch....
NET: Anything reticulated...
NET: Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the...
Life will not...
Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Source: Quoted in:...
It matters not...
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a...
It is unjust...
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
Melancholy, indeed, should...
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Source: Quoted...
Nay, Madam, when...
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
Men do not...
Men do not suspect faults which they do not commit.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
It seems not...
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured,...