What ills from beauty spring

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Beauty Quotes

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what...

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what...

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

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are...

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are...

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the...

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the...

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

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

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

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

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the...

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the...

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but...

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but...

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention,...

Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention,...

Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive

Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive

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

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

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his...

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his...

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.