Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single >>

Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on al >>

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to >>

Quotations about Wine

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it o >>

Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in b >>

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it mak >>

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Johnson, Samuel