“A vow is a snare for sin.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
“Whatever you have spend less.”
“Security will produce danger.”
“Round numbers are always false.”
“For who is pleased with himself.”
“Language is the dress of thought.”
“Virtue is too often merely local.”
“No man was ever great by imitation.”
“Exercise is labor without weariness.”
“Suspicion is most often useless pain.”
“No one ever became great by imitation.”
“The future is purchased by the present.”
“No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.”
“He who praises everybody, praises nobody.”
“I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.”
“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.”
“The endearing elegance of female friendship.”
“It is better to live rich, than to die rich.”
“I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.”
“At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.”
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
“It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.”
“This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.”
“Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.”
“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”
“Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.”
“In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.”
“All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.”
“There are charms made only for distance admiration.”
“Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.”