Logo
Quote by Samuel Johnson
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Money
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Wise Words
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote
[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Mind
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Writing
category

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 1894

Category:
Writing

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. – Hart Crane

Category:
Writing

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. – Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

Category:
Writing

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. – Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 1957 September 21st

Category:
Writing

Random Quotes

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. – Robert Bresson

Category:
Creativity

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. – Diogenes

Category:
Men

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people arent used to an environment where excellence is expected. – Steve Jobs

Category:
Leadership

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Category:
good