Quotes about Man by Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson English author

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man