Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Quote by Samuel Johnson
Topics:
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Related Quotes
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we...
Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt...
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to...
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to...
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend...
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present
The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to...
Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and...
The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor,...
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform,...
How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to...
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is...
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are...
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always...
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
