Samuel Johnson Quotes

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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• Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Wood

• For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.

  

  Yuna
  • Clothes
  • Season
  • Shop

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Together
  • True

• Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Evil

• It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Laugh

• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Compassion

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Study

• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Color

• No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Lose

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

• I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Man
  • Daily
  • Iron

• My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Time
  • Men
  • Children

• The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.

  

  Lizzo
  • People
  • Help
  • Culture

• Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • Gift
  • Scorn

• It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Search

• There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth... It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Game
  • Earth
  • Opportunity

• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • True
  • Man