Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Quote by Samuel Johnson
Topics:
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Related Quotes
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...
Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of...
But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the...
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and...
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love,...
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little...
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow
A man's greatest glory doesn't consist in never falling, but in rising every time he...
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with...
Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary;...
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
What ills from beauty spring
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the...
On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may...
