Quotes
Quotes - Johnson
How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
"He was a very good hater."
I like a good hater.
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn.
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.
Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
