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2569 quotesAlmost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Imitation
Samuel Johnson
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Quotations
Samuel Johnson
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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
Music
Samuel Johnson
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Disease
Samuel Johnson
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I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
America
Samuel Johnson
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In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
Writers and Writing
Samuel Johnson
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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Confidence
Samuel Johnson
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Law and Lawyers
Samuel Johnson
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No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Cooperation
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Achievement
Samuel Johnson
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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Idleness
Samuel Johnson
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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
Habit
Samuel Johnson
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
Memory
Samuel Johnson
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We grow small trying to be great.
Ambition
Eli Stanley Jones
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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
Ownership
Le Roi Jones
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Housework
Erica Jong
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All concord's born of contraries.
Contradiction
Ben Jonson
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
Time and Time Management
Ben Jonson
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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Self-worth
Janis Joplin
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There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Right and Rightness
David Starr Jordan
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Chance generally favors the prudent.
Fate
Joseph Joubert
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
Intimacy
Marcel Jouhandeau
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It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
Gifts
Peggy Hopkins Joyce
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Age and Aging
Carl Jung
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun