Today’s One-Liner (#128)
There are few things… that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the Fair Sex. –Samuel Johnson, in A Johnson…
Tag: Delusion
Missing the Mark
Every man believes that mistresses are unfaithful, and patrons capricious; but he excepts his own mistress, and his own patron. –Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson The tribe is likewise very numerous…