Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. — Quoted

“Quotes”

“Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.”

Samuel Johnson · Respect

⇩

Show me another

Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.

Samuel Johnson

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.

Birthday

Samuel Johnson

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Design

Samuel Johnson

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Art

Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Success