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

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Sports :: Poker
Read Quote

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Truth
Read Quote

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

Category:
Friendship
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

This world is but a canvas to our imagination. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

Category:
Art

Architecture begins where engineering ends. – Walter Gropius

Category:
Art

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement… for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. – Max Beckmann

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). – Lewis Carroll

Category:
good

An “unemployed” existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. – José Ortega y Gasset

Category:
Purpose

Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools. – Proverb

Category:
Philosophy

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Letters