Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
- Samuel Johnson
More Quotes By Samuel Johnson
- Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
- One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
- The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves...
- Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
- Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
- Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
- When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
- There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return...
- A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who,...
- When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all...
- He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his...
- Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity;...
- Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will...
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