Samuel Johnson

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#time #life

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#friendship

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#art #pleasure #truth #uniting

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#men

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dies #dying #how #importance #lasts

Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#men

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#men

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#society #men

Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [....] Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#verbosity #equality

our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#age