James Boswell was a famous Lawyer from Scotland, who lived between October 29, 1740 and May 19, 1795. He/she became 54 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 14 quotes who is written / told by James.
"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends"
"I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson"
"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion"
"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation"
"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"
"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything"
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself"
"It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy"
"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding"
"We must take our friends as they are"
"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am"
"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it"
"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation"
"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good"
