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

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Bad Day Quotes

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and...

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and...

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

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

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on...

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on...

Actions are visible, though motives are secret

Actions are visible, though motives are secret

Those that have loved longest love best.

Those that have loved longest love best.

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...

It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment...

It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment...

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings...

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings...

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never...

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never...

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

No man heartily hates him at who he can laugh

No man heartily hates him at who he can laugh

I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a...

I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a...

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him...

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him...

There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor, cannot find its way.

There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor, cannot find its way.

There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to...

There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to...

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

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

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

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

She loved right from the first sight

She loved right from the first sight

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop...

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop...

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.