Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give >>

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to e >>

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, l >>

Quotations about Bachelor

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of unio >>

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have p >>

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. >>

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

Johnson, Samuel