A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Life protracted is protracted woe.

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

Samuel Johnson

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

Samuel Johnson

Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system

Bill Mollison

I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

Jack Keane

What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the United States into a protracted guerrilla war like the one he had fought against the Soviets, never happened. Instead, that protracted guerrilla war is now playing out in Iraq, in the heart of the Middle East.

Peter Bergen

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.

Sun Tzu

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Sun Tzu

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

Derek Bok

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

Don Henley

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!