Samuel Johnson

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

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

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Find people who will make you better.

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.

Kindness, love, strength and determination personified!! Madiba reminds me that everything is possible!

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

If you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy – but he who has shown the better temper.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.