Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.Quote by Samuel Johnson about conversation, man, life
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.Quote by Samuel Johnson about curiosity, knowledge
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.Quote by Samuel Johnson about difficulties, pleasure, success, life
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.Quote by Samuel Johnson about society, life
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.Quote by Samuel Johnson about joy, progress, life
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.Quote by Samuel Johnson about life
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.Quote by Samuel Johnson about drinking
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.Quote by Samuel Johnson about use, money, time, life
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.Quote by Samuel Johnson about law, power, nature
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.Quote by Samuel Johnson about autumn, flowers, spring, man
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.Quote by Samuel Johnson about being, companies, food, chance, man