Logo
Quote by Samuel Johnson
The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order t

The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
great
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Art
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Time
category

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. – Saint Augustine

Category:
Time

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. – J.M. Barrie

Category:
Time

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. – Marcus Aurelius

Category:
Time

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time. – Kid Rock

Category:
Time

Random Quotes

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet. – America Ferrera

Category:
famous

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters. – Julie Bowen

Category:
movies

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport…. – Amy Johnson

Category:
Flying

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. – Thomas Francis Meagher

Category:
alone