Samuel Johnson

Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

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

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage; that we move on to better things.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Friends are thieves of time.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Every old poem is sacred.