Quotes by Samuel Johnson about Things

Samuel Johnson English author

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about things