Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance. >>

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. >>

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like t >>

Quotations about Gratitude

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember >>

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. >>

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere els >>

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Johnson, Samuel