Samuel Johnson

Whatever you have spend less.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Your mind makes a cruel master, but a generous servant.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself into one.

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they’re a mighty ornery lot. It’s the way they’re raised.