Quotes
Quotes - Johnson
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.
Any solution to a problem changes the problem.
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind.
And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
The only one who can beat me is me.
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the runs of Iona.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
