Quotes about Man, page 37

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

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 man

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons...

Quote by Magic Johnson about man

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

Quote by Magic Johnson about man

My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.

Quote by Magic Johnson about man

I haven't had an opportunity to do a really full-blown comedy in a while. I'd like to do one of those like My Man Godfrey or something like that.

Quote by Don Johnson about man

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

Quote by Quincy Jones about man

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about man

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about man

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Quote by James Joyce about man

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Quote by James Joyce about man