B.S. Johnson Quotes
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.