Quotes about Man, page 36

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

No man was ever great by imitation.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about 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 man

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man