Quote #83
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
More from Samuel Johnson
- Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
- Example is always more efficacious than precept.
- Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
- Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocat…
- Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- To a pet nothing can be useless.
- The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.