Loading...
ARTISTS
BUSINESS
CLASSICAL
DRAMATISTS
ENTERTAINERS
GOVERNMENT
HEALTH
LAW & HISTORY
MILITARY
NOVELISTS
PHILOSOPHY
REFORMERS
SPORTS
TECH & SCIENCE
WRITERS A-H
WRITERS I-Z
FRANK's Components of Creativity
BOSWELL. I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it . . .JOHNSON. That, Sir, I find, is what a very...
More about this quote...
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.Source:...
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. More about this quote...
DULL. 8. To make dictionaries is dull work.Source: -- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18...
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the...
Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.Source: quoted...
Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind...
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.Source: Journey to the Western Isles...
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite...
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.Source: -- Samuel Johnson,...
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.Source: In...
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.Source: In Webster's...
COUGH: A convulsion of the lungs, vellicated by some sharp serosity.Source:...
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.Source: On hearing a...
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with...
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink...
Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag.Source: Diary and...
Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!Source: Ordering for...
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the...
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. . . . He whom nature has made...
Page 5 of 22
(C)2024 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.
