A Few Quotes to Consider
Posted on August 26th, 2009 by Devin
These quotes below are from Samuel Johnson (1709-1784).
- I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it.
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
- The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends. Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends. (I disagree, and think a person can have many friends.)
- I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves.
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