Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
Samuel Johnson
Tag: Quote of the Day
22DEC2022 – Quote of the Day
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
Quote for the Winter Solstice 2022
“The days were growing shorter, the light was quickly failing, and towards the end of
each afternoon the heart became uneasy. A primitive terror seized us – that of our
ancestors who during the winter months watched the sun go out a little earlier each
day. ‘Tomorrow it will go out for ever,’ they must have thought in despair, and spent
the entire night on the heights in fear and trembling.”
Nikos Kazantzakis “ZORBA THE GREEK”
21DEC2022 – Quote of the Day
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Samuel Johnson
20DEC2022 – Quote of the Day
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson
19DEC2022 – Quote of the Day
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson
18DEC2022 – Quote of the Day
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Samuel Johnson
17DEC2022 – Quote of the Day
All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson
16DEC2022 – Quote of the Day
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
15DEC2022 – Quote of the Day
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Samuel Johnson