When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
- Samuel Johnson
More Quotes By Samuel Johnson
- When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
- The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves...
- Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time...
- It is better to live rich than to die rich.
- When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all...
- Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
- Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
- Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who...
- There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself...
- He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his...
- He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of...
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another,...
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit...
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