It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going...

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going...

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to...

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to...

Hope is itself a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world...

Hope is itself a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world...

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of...

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of...

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...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes...

I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for...

I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for...

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...

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

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

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to...

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to...

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy,...

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy,...

What ills from beauty spring

What ills from beauty spring

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade, The eyes of men without an orator.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade, The eyes of men without an orator.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.