Quote by Samuel Johnson
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man.

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

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
Read Quote

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
great
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You cant invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. – David Herbert Lawrence

Category:
Art

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college — that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?” – Howard Ikemoto

Category:
Art

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spiders web. – Pablo Picasso

Category:
Art

In an artwork youre always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. – Damien Hirst

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

I dont have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses. – Curt Schilling

Category:
Government

Theres nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It wont ring from room service your mother wont be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, youre dead. – David Mamet

Category:
Morning

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy. – Stephen Rea

Category:
smile

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. – John Lubbock

Category:
Learning