Logo
Quote by Samuel Johnson
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes t

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Courage
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Reputation
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Reality
category

Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. – Bhagavad Gita

Category:
Reality

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. – David G. Myers, Social Psychology

Category:
Reality

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit. – Ernest Bramah

Category:
Reality

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. – Democritus

Category:
Reality

Random Quotes

Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishings sake — that little more which is worth all the rest. – Dean Briggs

Category:
Excellence

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
Royalty, Kings, Queens

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. – David Herbert Lawrence, White Peacock, 1911

Category:
Humankind

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time. – Bill Cosby

Category:
good