Quote #192

Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.

More from Samuel Johnson

  1. A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.
  2. I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.
  3. There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a…
  4. It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they ca…
  5. A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing.
  6. As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.
  7. Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it m…
  8. It might as well be said, 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'

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