Logo
Quote by Samuel Johnson
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contrib

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Getting money is not all a mans business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Business
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Exercise
category

Im not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. – Carol Leifer

Category:
Exercise

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Exercise

An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school. – David Walters

Category:
Exercise

When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. – John Donne

Category:
Exercise

Random Quotes

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they dont understand. – Thomas R. Cech

Category:
positive

Freedom is hiding under the clutter. – Terri Guillemets, “At home,” 2005

Category:
Clutter

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to. – Stuart Appleby

Category:
alone

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Leadership