"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
― Samuel Johnson
Topic(s):
Happiness
More From Samuel Johnson
- "Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it."
- "A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice."
- "Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
More In Happiness
- "You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you."― Samuel Johnson
- "We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier."― Walter Savage Landor
- "The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn’t think he could do."― Ring Lardner