Quotes by Johnson, Ben

"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

Johnson, Ben on advice   

"Talking is the disease of age."

Johnson, Ben on age and aging   

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"Force works on servile natures, not the free."

Johnson, Ben on force   

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"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."

Johnson, Ben on hell
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"Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house."

Johnson, Ben on home
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"Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee."

Johnson, Ben on language   

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"Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest."

Johnson, Ben on anxiety   

"The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly."

Johnson, Ben on money   

"I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news."

Johnson, Ben on newspapers   

"A good poet's made as well as born."

Johnson, Ben on poetry and poets   

"Art has an enemy called ignorance."

Johnson, Ben on art