Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.
— Samuel Johnson
Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.
— Samuel Johnson
Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.
— Samuel Johnson
One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
— Samuel Johnson
For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
— Samuel Johnson
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
— Samuel Johnson
Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
— Samuel Johnson
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
— Samuel Johnson
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
— Samuel Johnson
None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
— Samuel Johnson
Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing. When we have made it the next wish is to change again.
— Samuel Johnson
Shame arises from the fear of man conscience from the fear of God.
— Samuel Johnson