Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. >>

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and >>

I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an ad >>

Quotations about Respectability

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability >>

If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal m >>

I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to >>

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.

Johnson, Samuel