Quotes by English/England authors (page 15)

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"We ask advice, but we mean approbation"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Words are but the signs of ideas"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Actions are visible, though motives are secret"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"We grow small trying to be great"

David Hockney, Artist

"Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"At ev'ry word a reputation dies"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg"

Alexander Pope, Poet

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