Famous quotes by Authors

"It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual"

Samuel Johnson, Author

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

Samuel Johnson, Author

"He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life"

Samuel Johnson, Author

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

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Exercise is labor without weariness"

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

"Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Actions are visible, though motives are secret"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything"

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 am a great friend of public amusements., They keep people from vice"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Literature adds to reality; it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become"

C. S. Lewis, Author

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