Samuel Johnson Quotes
+24It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- Samuel Johnson
+14Round numbers are always false.
- Samuel Johnson
+3Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.
- Samuel Johnson
+3Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson
+1A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
- Samuel Johnson
+1There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
- Samuel Johnson
+1When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
- Johnson Samuel
+1Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.
- Samuel Johnson
+1While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- Samuel Johnson
+1He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
- Samuel Johnson
+1You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not silence is the sharper sword.
- Samuel Johnson
+1A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
- Samuel Johnson
+1He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
- Samuel Johnson
+1It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
- Samuel Johnson
+1I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable.
- Samuel Johnson
+1There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson
+1The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
– Samuel Johnson
+1There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
- Samuel Johnson
+1The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
- Samuel Johnson
+1Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
- Samuel Johnson
+1The great Cham of literature.
- Samuel Johnson
+1No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- Samuel Johnson
+1It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquillity.
- Samuel Johnson
