Logo
Quote by Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Success
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
alone
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Imitation
category

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. – Francesco Guicciardini

Category:
Imitation

Man is an idiot. He doesnt know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate. – Augusto Roa Bastos

Category:
Imitation

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Category:
Imitation

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. – Salvador Dali

Category:
Imitation

Random Quotes

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Superstition

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. – Thomas Edison

Category:
Failure

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered old college environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls. – Vince Cable

Category:
Politics

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. – Brendan Francis

Category:
Acceptance