Quotes
Quotes - Johnson
Language is the dress of thought.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.
His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat.
A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.
Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes.
