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12663 quotesPride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Pride
Samuel Johnson
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Advertising
Samuel Johnson
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Prudence
Samuel Johnson
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Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
Revenge
Samuel Johnson
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Security will produce danger.
Security
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
Identity
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Understanding
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
Bores and Boredom
Samuel Johnson
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
Rhetoric
Samuel Johnson
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Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Sorrow
Samuel Johnson
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Mistakes
Samuel Johnson
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Approval
Samuel Johnson
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The endearing elegance of female friendship.
Friends and Friendship
Samuel Johnson
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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
Habit
Samuel Johnson
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Bed
Samuel Johnson
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Servants
Samuel Johnson
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Samuel Johnson
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Enthusiasm
Samuel Johnson
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
Opinions
Samuel Johnson
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Hope
Samuel Johnson
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The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Samuel Johnson
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Complaints and Complaining
Samuel Johnson
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Compassion
Samuel Johnson
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There are charms made only for distance admiration.
Charm
Samuel Johnson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun