Showing posts with label Samuel Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samuel Johnson. Show all posts

Thursday, June 04, 2026

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.

Sunday, May 31, 2026

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks.

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Friday, May 30, 2025

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Thursday, January 09, 2025

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Monday, July 29, 2024

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly; but the good endures. If you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure; the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures." - Gaius Musonius Rufus

"Offer me money. Offer me power. I don't care. I'll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it." - Elon Musk

"War is when the government tells you who the bad guyis. Revolution is when you decide for yourself." - Benjamin Franklin

"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." - Samuel Johnson

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - George Orwell

"Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse the news, and by fools who cannot govern." - G.K. Chesterton

"The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." - Samuel Johnson

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." - Albert Einstein

Thursday, July 21, 2022

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"I always spent money on books. I never viewed that as an expense. That's an investment to me." - Naval Ravikant

"Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are right now, and we will never be here again." - Homer, The Iliad

"As I know more about mankind, I expect less of them." - Samuel Johnson

"Say 'yes' to life - and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you." - Eckhart Tolle

Saturday, June 04, 2022

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"The trouble is, you think you have time." - Buddha

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." - Samuel Johnson

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." - Albert Einstein

Saturday, May 28, 2022

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"You make money to solve your money and material problems. I think the best way to stay away from this constant love of money is to not upgrade your lifestyle when you make money." - Naval Ravikant

"Judgement is the art of knowing what to ignore." - Shane Parrish

"If you take a job and they pay you five dollars a day, give them seven dollars a day worth of work." - Bill Russell

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome." - Dr. Samuel Johnson 

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

 "Of all the cards you can pick in the game of life, choose intelligence and drive. You can trade those two for almost anything else." - Naval Ravikant

"Sir, there is nothing which has been yet contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern." - Samuel Johnson

"When you focus all of your energy in one direction for an uncommonly long period of time, you develop talent. Results follow obsession." - Shane Parrish

"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind." - Samuel Ulman

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Quotes for Today

Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"You don't have eight creative, problem solving hours in the day - you have two. Spend your time wisely." - Naval Ravikant

"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am." - Dr. Samuel Johnson

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." - George Orwell

"That which can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."- Christopher Hitchens 

Friday, October 08, 2021

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat." - Jean Paul Sartre

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom." - John Locke

"With Great Pumpkin comes great responsibility." - Linus

"Sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern." - Samuel Johnson

Monday, August 02, 2021

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away." - Linus Pauling

"For the classics, philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me, a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight." - Nassim Taleb

"Life isn't about Finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"As I know more about mankind, I expect less of them." - Samuel Johnson

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams

"The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks." - Mortimer Adler

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Soren Kierkegaard

Monday, July 12, 2021

Quotes for Today

Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims." - Thomas Sowell

"Sir, your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves." - Samuel Johnson

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I wish to change myself." - Rumi

"You have to lower your ideals of freedom if you want to suck on the warm teat of China." - South Park

"Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered discrimination." - Thomas Sowell

"The conscience is that part of the psyche which is soluble in alcohol." - William Ober

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"The trouble is, you think you have time." - Buddha

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." - Samuel Johnson

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." - Albert Einstein

 "Reading for curiosity is better than reading for self improvement." - Shane Parrish 

"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean." - Isaac Newton

"A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds back." - Proverbs 29:11