Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little…

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Life Quotes, Morality Quotes, Wit Quotes

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...

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the...

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the...

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always...

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always...

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes...

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes...

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did...

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did...

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels...

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels...

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what...

That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what...

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some...

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some...

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...

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore...

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore...

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and...

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and...

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Pleasure itself is not a vice

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to...

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to...

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.

I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.