Quote by Samuel Johnson
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rat

Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rattle, and the old man does not care for the young mans whore. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. – Samuel Johnson

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Attitude
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. – Samuel Johnson

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. – William Blake

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Twenty cant be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twentys eternal love affairs. – Emily Carr

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A father lives after death in his son. – Sanskrit

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. – Willa Cather

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The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless. – Sophia Bush

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‘Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. – Benjamin Franklin

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I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. – Stephen Rea

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