Quotes by Samuel Johnson about Man
60 quotes by Samuel Johnson about man
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
SQuote by Samuel Johnson about man
