Samuel Johnson Quotes - Page 2
+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
+1As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Grief is a species of idleness.
- Samuel Johnson
+1As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
- Samuel Johnson
+1A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
- Samuel Johnson
+1The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.
- Samuel Johnson
+1In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
- Samuel Johnson
+1The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
- Samuel Johnson
+1The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
+1A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child’s rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man’s whore.
- Samuel Johnson
+1The future is purchased by the present.
- Samuel Johnson
+1A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
- Samuel Johnson
+1When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
- Samuel Johnson
+1When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
- Samuel Johnson
+1There are charms made only for distant admiration.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
- Samuel Johnson
+1When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
- Samuel Johnson
+1It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
- Samuel Johnson
+1No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
- Samuel Johnson
+1This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Wine gives a man nothing it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
- Samuel Johnson
0Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Samuel Johnson
0Those that have loved longest love best.
- Samuel Johnson
0The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
- Samuel Johnson
0My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
- Samuel Johnson
