Quotes by Samuel Johnson about Man, page 3

Samuel Johnson English author

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

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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

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

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

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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will never do any good.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man