Samuel Johnson

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

A bond as important as that of a husband and wife, is the bond between siblings.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy-that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

Dear Ladies: You should never need to prove to other women that he’s in love with you. That’s his job.

“They stood there pretending to be just friends when all the while everyone in the room could plainly see that they were only existing for each other.

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.

It’s fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.

If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

A friend is a second self.

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

I don’t know where to find a good guy. I just think that they’re around and I think you have to be good and at some point you’ll attract that. I really believe that. First, people should stop looking. The looking thing does not work. Just let love find you.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.