Samuel Johnson : (11)

" Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. " - Samuel Johnson

" By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. " - Samuel Johnson

" What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. " - Samuel Johnson

" Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. " - Samuel Johnson

" Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. " - Samuel Johnson

" All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. " - Samuel Johnson

" When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. " - Samuel Johnson

" That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. " - Samuel Johnson

" Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. " - Samuel Johnson

" The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. " - Samuel Johnson