Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue: pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to the corporeal health; and those who resist gaiety, will be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite; for the solicitations of sense are always at hand, and a dram to […]
Samuel Johnson Quotes
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
A man is born to hereditary rank; or his being appointed to certain offices, gives him a certain rank. Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
It is strange how many things will happen to intercept every pleasure, though it be only that of two friends meeting together.
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
No man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
For we who live to please must please to live.
He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
Let no man rashly determine, that his unwillingness to be pleased is a proof of understanding, unless his superiority appears from less doubtful evidence; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit, it is much oftener of base extraction, the child of vanity and nursling of ignorance.
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
