A Quote by Samuel Johnson

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson

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

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson

I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life...I can't dispute it.

Bill Bryson

A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.

Paul Theroux

When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

Samuel Johnson

The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space

Paul Theroux

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm old and boring in London and get really tired around midnight. But in Berlin, I had this new lease of life because there's something electric about the place.

Emily Berrington

London, how could one ever be tired of it?

Margaret Drabble

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

Kay Redfield Jamison

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.

Clive Owen

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.

Susan Orlean

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

Norman Wisdom

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.