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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.»
«It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.»
«I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.»
«You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.»
«I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.»
«A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.»
«Honesty is not greater where elegance is less.»
«Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.»
«I refute it thus.»
«If a man were to go by chance at the same time with Burke under a shed, to shun a shower, he would say - 'this is an extraordinary man.'»
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