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

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Love Quotes, Pleasure Quotes

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not...

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not...

Sir, we are a nest of singing birds

Sir, we are a nest of singing birds

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a...

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a...

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most...

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most...

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of...

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of...

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

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

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and...

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and...

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly...

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly...

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must...

What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must...

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

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

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong...

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong...

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the...

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the...

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until...

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently...

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to...

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to...