Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Fame Quotes, Time Quotes

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with...

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with...

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed...

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed...

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the...

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the...

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

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...

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

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

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him...

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him...

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

No man was ever great by imitation.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always...

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always...

To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals;...

To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals;...

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals...

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up...

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...

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...

Don't forget to love yourself.

Don't forget to love yourself.

I instantly smile when I see a text from you, I don't care what's in...

I instantly smile when I see a text from you, I don't care what's in...

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there...

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there...

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.