Samuel Johnson Together Quotations

No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.

Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.

Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.