I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
Interpretation
The quote expresses admiration for the qualities of women, highlighting their beauty and subtleties.
Samuel Johnson's quote reflects a deep appreciation for women, celebrating not just their physical beauty but also their grace, liveliness, and the quiet strength they possess in silence. It suggests that there is a richness in their company that brings joy and enrichment to one's life.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech celebrating women's contributions to society.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.
If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.
Each time anyone comes in contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love.
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