Samuel Johnson Quotes
+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
+1A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.
- 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
+1Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard and be wise.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Language is the dress of thought.
- Samuel Johnson
+1All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
- Samuel Johnson