Quote by Samuel Johnson
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrate

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Is there life before death? – Author Unknown

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We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are — that is the fact. – Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. – Tagore

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There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. – Steven Seagal

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Its not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause. – Jack Benny

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. – Author Unknown

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