Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and anothe >>

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or n >>

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard >>

Quotations about Involvement

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both >>

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. >>

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pl >>

It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom supposed falsely, that all would go if they could; to be able to say nothing when everyone is talking; to have no opinion when everyone is judging; to hear exclamations of rapture without power to depress; to listen to falsehoods without right to contradict, is, after all, a state of temporary inferiority, in which the mind is rather hardened by stubbornness, than supported by fortitude. If the world be worth winning let us enjoy it, if it is to be despised let us despise it by conviction. But the world is not to be despised but as it is compared with something better.

Johnson, Samuel