Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Possibility Quotes

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the...

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the...

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from...

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from...

The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to...

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to...

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Pleasure itself is not a vice

No man was ever great by imitation.

No man was ever great by imitation.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man...

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man...

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a...

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a...

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries...

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries...

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen

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...

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may...

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may...

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you...

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you...

A man will turn over half a library to make one book

A man will turn over half a library to make one book

Adore Him(GOD), placing a garland of tears around His neck; washing His feet with tears,...

Adore Him(GOD), placing a garland of tears around His neck; washing His feet with tears,...

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running...

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running...